On Friday 14 September 2007, Jordi Molina wrote: > On 9/14/07, Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Except that now, instead of being asked for a password, I'm asked > > for the pass-phrase that belongs to the ssh key. > > Create it w/o passphrase. > > It's not a big security risk, just ensure that the access of the user > in the fw machine has restrictive access over its home and that it > can't su/sudo to root. > > Any backup application that sends data unattendedly will have the same > security concerns, from my point of view it'ld be senseless to start > now a discussion about this, again.
Or, you can use keychain. Read these articles for a good introduction to keychain (and ssh key management): http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/openssh-key-management-p1.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/openssh-key-management-p2.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/openssh-key-management-p3.xml http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychain/index.xml HTH -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
