[ On Monday, August 14, 2000 at 17:20:06 (+0100), Tony Hoyle wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: cvs-nserver and latest CVS advisory (Was: patch to make CVS chroot)
>
> It doesn't mention how to stop SSH asking for a password every time you
> use it
That's a basic SSH question covered in the SSH documentation and in the
online FAQ. It depends on your site-specific SSH server configuration
and so it wouldn't make much sense for the SourceForge folks to go
out of their way to document confusing options that they do not make
use of.
I.e. without knowing exactly how your SSH server is configured and what
your site security policy has to say about such things even I can't give
you a direct answer that'd be of any help.
Personally after using a normal unix password to authenticate myself
(and yes that password is almost always given to me over the phone, and
once even in postal mail) I just set up my ~/.shosts file and copy my
public key into my ~/.ssh/known_hosts using the appropriate syntax. But
then none of the SSH servers I use require RSA keys.
If your site does require RSA keys and it's actually your RSA passphrase
that's being requested, then the only solution you really have outside
of trying to use ssh-agent is to not use an RSA passphrase (i.e. create
your RSA keys without specifying a passphrase) and be damn sure you can
trust your client system (and its system manager if its not a
single-user workstation) to keep your RSA keys private.
(Note too that the SourceForge folks have apparently avoided a bit of
user support overload by automating some of the ~/.ssh setups.)
> The shsetup program itself is broken (at least on Win2k) but after
> a bit of ferreting I managed to get something to work. However it's
> unusable as it is.
I've heard there are lots of troubles with getting stuff to work on
M$-w2k, so I'm not too surprised. The places I've heard of that support
any kind of M$ OS platform (including local ISPs) are not yet officially
supporting M$-w2k.
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Greg A. Woods
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