Thanks guys! i was able to get the authentication to work using ssh-agent. Thanks again. --Brad On Tuesday 20 February 2001 14:19, Charles R. Anderson wrote:
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Pedro Soria-Rodriguez wrote:
sorrod> You can setup your ssh session so that it uses sorrod> certificates to authenticate you to the server, instead of sorrod> using username/password conbination. THen your sorrod> certificate is kept in your account in your client sorrod> machine. When you connect to the server, the ssh client sorrod> automatically grabs your cert., does a few operations with sorrod> the server to authenticate you, and you are all set. You sorrod> don't need to enter anything manually.
You should give your certificate (RSA or DSA key) a passphrase to keep it more secure. You could then use ssh-agent to cache the key in memory for the duration of a session so you don't need to enter the passphrase every time.
sorrod> from the security point of view, you need to keep your sorrod> certificate in the client machine safe, obviously.
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