On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 4:00 PM, niedh <[email protected]> wrote:
> thanks for the reply
> Actually , my problem is :
> I had lots of linux servers, and I want to copy my id_rsa.pub to all these
> servers and append it to the ssh auth file,
> so i can ssh to these servers without enter the password later.
> i want to accomplish this task in ruby , so i write a script, iterater the
> server list, call system("scp .........")
Have you seen ssh-copy-id? Works better than manually patching and scping an
auth file. Also, ssh doesn't let you pipe in a password; you need to use
expect or socat for that. I recommend the latter; I've always found expect
overly brittle.
http://linux.com/news/software/developer/17942-socat-the-general-bidirectional-pipe-handler
martin
