Asking for password is a regular behavior on account of the ssh. If you doCreate a file in your home dir called ".rhost". It's very very very recommended against.
not really need a secure connection, you can use either rsh, rlogin or
other remote shell tools, which should be easily configured to rely on the
authentication you made while getting into one computer, and allow you the
same user name in others. No, I don't know where exactly to tweak this.
No, not exactly.These tools are not safe, of course. Not only are they not encrypted, but they also enable someone to connect his/her machine to the network, tell the machine it has a certain hostname and a certain ip, define a username on it (say root), and immediately connect to your network.
If I understand correctly, the way to create an ssh without a password involves re-entering your passphrase for your gpg key every time you init your X. For details, see the following howto:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~arun/misc/ssh.html
Orna.
SSH can allow public key authentication. This means you create a key, and you use this key to prove to the ssh server that you are who you say you are. RTFM ssh, and look for "public key authentication", or "authorized_keys".
Now, if your key is encrypted, you can use the ssh agent to store the password. Most distros have the ssh agent running when you log in, which means you have to do "ssh-add" once after logging in.
If your key is not encrypted, you can just use ssh without a password.
Shachar
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