On 22 Feb Matthew Seaman wrote:
Generate an ssh key in the usual way:
# ssh-keygen -b 1024 -t rsa
which will prompt you for a passphrase. Enter one. The command will
create two files:
id_rsa (the private key) and
id_rsa.pub (the public key)
Move 'id_rsa' in
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 11:00:34AM +0100, dick hoogendijk wrote:
On 22 Feb Matthew Seaman wrote:
Generate an ssh key in the usual way:
# ssh-keygen -b 1024 -t rsa
which will prompt you for a passphrase. Enter one. The command will
create two files:
id_rsa (the private
On 22 Feb Matthew Seaman wrote:
Start up the ssh-agent and load the key into it:
# eval `ssh-agent`
# ssh-add /user/.ssh/id_rsa
When you're done, remember to shut down the ssh-agent:
# eval `ssh-agent -k`
Is this kind of a safety measure? Isn't it simpler to activate ssh-agent
on
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 06:27:55PM +0100, dick hoogendijk wrote:
On 22 Feb Matthew Seaman wrote:
Start up the ssh-agent and load the key into it:
# eval `ssh-agent`
# ssh-add /user/.ssh/id_rsa
When you're done, remember to shut down the ssh-agent:
# eval `ssh-agent -k`
Is
On 23 Feb Matthew Seaman wrote:
ssh-agent tends not to get killed when you log out.
You can do that through your startup scripts (.login and .logout for
tcsh, .bash_login and .bash_logout for bash etc.)
Right. This works.. I use sh as my shell, so I put the startup in
.profile, but where do I
I want to make a *full* backup of my fbsd-4.7 to a (remote) HD on my
local network.
Should I share the (remote) directory through NFS or an alternate way.
And most important: what program do I use. The remote is an ext3 linux
drive.
Can anyone point me in the right (syntax) direction?
Should I
On 22 Feb Matthew Seaman wrote:
# dump -0f - /usr | ssh linuxbox cat /foo/fbsd-usr.dump
or
# cd /home ; tar -jcvlf - . | ssh linuxbox cat /foo/fbsd-home.tar.bz2
Doing the restore is much the same thing in reverse:
# cd /usr ; ssh linuxbox cat /foo/fbsd-usr.dump | restore -rf -
or
# cd
On 22 Feb Matthew Seaman wrote:
# dump -0f - /usr | ssh linuxbox cat /foo/fbsd-usr.dump
It seemed easy enough, but it wasn't. ssh linuxbox won't work because
I need a password. Guess I have to alter things to have an automatic ssh
session. Don't exactly know how :-((
--
dick --
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 10:03:43PM +0100, dick hoogendijk wrote:
On 22 Feb Matthew Seaman wrote:
# dump -0f - /usr | ssh linuxbox cat /foo/fbsd-usr.dump
It seemed easy enough, but it wasn't. ssh linuxbox won't work because
I need a password. Guess I have to alter things to have an
