[geeks] SSH scripting question

[Dave Kimmel]

On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> I've been combing the SSH man page trying to figure out how to pass a
> password to ssh without actually typing it (like so that I can have SSH
> do things remotely via shell script unattended).

Take a look at the RSA authentication bits, I think that does what you
want.

I did this a long, long time ago and it worked really nicely for the most
part.  From what I recall, I just had to set up the public and private
keys properly on both machines and it just worked.

-- Dave Kimmel
   crisco_kid at shaw.ca