On: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 10:52:33 -0500 AJ writes:
> hey,
> im trying to set most of my commands to windows in windowmaker to
> make things easier and i cant get ssh to work because i cant type my
> password in the opening command.. is there a way to edit ssh so that
> u can type something like:
>
> ssh -l login -p password host.com
> ?
> or is there a way to specify the password for this host so it doesnt
> ask you?
Use ssh-keygen with an empty password[1] and follow the instruction in
ssh(1):
Ssh implements the RSA authentication protocol automati-
cally. The user creates his/her RSA key pair by running
ssh-keygen(1). This stores the private key in .ssh/iden-
tity and the public key in .ssh/identity.pub in the user's
home directory. The user should then copy the iden-
tity.pub to .ssh/authorized_keys in his/her home directory
on the remote machine (the authorized_keys file corre-
sponds to the conventional .rhosts file, and has one key
per line, though the lines can be very long). After this,
the user can log in without giving the password. RSA
authentication is much more secure than rhosts authentica-
tion.
I just tried it and it works in the way you probably want.
Torsten
Footnotes:
[1] The use of empty passphrases is strongly discouraged in
ssh-agent(1).
