I do this at work. I created dsa keys for ssh v1, ssh-keygen -d i believe.
its in the man page. i stuck the resultant pub key in my ~/.ssh/known_hosts
file in the hosts i want to connect to, and run something like this
scp -l root host command
and it works. password authentication is the last authentication method ssh
tries i believe. so if something before that, like my dsa keys, pass, it
works.
Jason
>
> Yet another newbie question.
>
> scp asks for a password. How can I cause it to
> not ask for the password so I can use scp in a script.
>
> I looked in the FAQ but saw nothing, so I'd appreciate it
> if someone pointed me in the right direction
>
> TIA
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