The RedHat Customization Guide, contained in the RedHat Documentation gives a pretty detailed explanation of using SSH. If I remember correctly, you can do exactly what you want.
Joebewan On Thursday 04 July 2002 08:57 am, Wesley Murphy wrote: > There is a way, or there should be, to enable secure access to a machine > without having to enter a password. > > My problem is this: > > I have two machines, both running ssh, they both have static ips on the > interfaces that I will be using for this. I would like to be > pre-authorised as root to scp/ssh from one machine to the other. (i.e. > without having to type in a password) > I have browsed through ssh docs for days and have yet to come up with a > working solution. I think that it should be a very simple thing. > > Is there a way to do this? > > Exactly how would I do this ? > > Instructions like this would be helpful: > eg. > copy the public key for machine A from /root/.ssh/..... > The public key is the one that everyone is allowed to see anyway. > paste it to the ssh1 file(/root/.ssh....) on machine B > This lets machine B know that machine A exists. > Enter the ip address for machine A into /etc/trusted-hosts on machine B > This lets machine B automaticlally trust machine A > Restart sshd > Test (eg. scp test.txt root@machineB:~) > > Any help would be much appreciated > > Wez > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Valhalla -- Linux good, Fire bad _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
