Hello, we use ssh keys for cron jobs. The private keys used for connecting dont require a password.
http://www.ssh3.com/support/documentation/online/ssh/adminguide/32/Public-Key_Authentication-2.html John Stefani schrieb: > > Hello Everybody, > > I have some cron jobs that use ssh (version 4.4p1) to connect to other > servers and run certain tasks. The users in question sometimes are > real users, sometimes fictitious users that I created only for running > the cron job. I changed to *NP* the password field of /etc/shadow for > the fictitious users on the servers the cron jobs connect to, and all > works happily. Here's my problem: those servers to which the cron > job tries to connect to as a real user, who has a real password, does > not allow ssh connections with null passphrases. I can't set the > password field in /etc/shadow to *NP* because sometimes I have to > connect as the real user. Does someone know how I can connect > automatically to a server, using ssh, as a user that has a password, > but with a null passphrase? Hope the above was not too confusing... > > Absolutely any thoughts or workarounds will be much appreciated. > > John Stefani > jstefani _at_ yorku.ca > >
