On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 07:38, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > Make the script executable and make sure the user under whose uid it > > > will run is able to connect with ssh without supplying a password. > > > > > > > How exactly would I do that? Make a user that doesn't have to supply a > > password? Like the apache default www-data? How would I set up the user? > > > On the target machine > > mkdir ~/.ssh > > On the sending machine: > > ssh-keygen -t dsa > (leave the passphrase empty) > > scp .ssh/id_dsa.pub [other machine]:.ssh
Sorry, that should be: scp .ssh/id_dsa.pub [other machine]:/tmp ssh [other machine] cat /tmp/id_dsa.pub >>.ssh/authorized_keys -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA ======================================== "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Romans 5:1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]