Walcir Fontanini-ADM- writes:
: Sami Lehtinen wrote:
:
: >
: > Please do remember that passphraseless private keys are not a good
: > idea, in general.
: >
: > I recommend that you take the time to study the documentation of
: > ssh-agent and ssh-add. This way, even if you private key has a
: > passphrase, you can log into remote machines with publickey
: > authentication without entering your passphrase every time. You give
: > it once at the start of your X-session, and then the agent handles the
: > authentication for you. Even if you don't use X, you can use it. It
: > won't be as easy as with X, but more secure nevertheless.
: >
:
: But in case I want to run a shell script inside a crontab at night,
: what's the best way to use ssh to this ??
Then it's probably best to use the passphraseless private keys.
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