Les Mikesell wrote: > On 7/13/2011 3:19 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> John R Pierce wrote: >>> On 07/13/11 12:46 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>>> Would it work if you tried ssh -A -X user at hostname? >>> >>> I've not used that option, and the man page isn't explaining it to me >>> such that I quite understand what it does. >> >> I use it all the time. -A forwards authentication, if you've got an >> agent running. Most likely, you've got ssh-agent as a daemon (check >> via ps). If you've got a key in ~/.ssh/, like id_dsa& id_dsa.pub, and >> have used ssh-add to add it, and the .pub is in the ~/.ssh >> /authorized_keys on the targets, you can go from one machine to another >> to another, without have to come back. > > How does that get you to root on the remote for the install step? Do > you have to have your key in root's authorized_keys? Yep, that's exactly what you do. mark