Comments on: Password-less SSH Login

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:05:10 +0000

You have to create ~/.ssh/ because by default this is not present.

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Distributed NLTK with execnet « streamhacker.com — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:26:19 +0000

[...] sure you have NLTK and the corpus data installed on every host. You must also have passwordless ssh access to each host from the master host (the machine you run run_tag_files.py [...]

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Kladblog » Blog Archive » Wachtwoordloze SSH login — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:29:28 +0000

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By: Bash backup scripts including mysql backup at max words

Bash backup scripts including mysql backup at max words — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:02:55 +0000

[...] a fairly low-tech solution, but its simple and it works for me. The only tricky bit was setting up passwordless ssh login so the script in part 2 could access the live server. It was a tad involved but I used the [...]

By: Dustin

Dustin — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:39:26 +0000

I am not sure about everybody else but for me the permissions on the .ssh directory were very important. I was not able to get this to work unless I removed all from group and other. A chmod 600 or 700 might be required.

Thanks for the help. Nice tutorial!

By: Life After Coffee » Secure remote file copy

Life After Coffee » Secure remote file copy — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:43:18 +0000

[...] Zach has a good article about setting up ssh with key authentication which will allow you to use the scp and ssh commands without a password while still maintaining security. For more tips like this check out my book Easy Linux Commands, only $19.95 from Rampant TechPress. Buy it now! [...]

By: Storm

Storm — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:00:43 +0000

For those who are as dense as myself.. authorized keys is a file, not a directory.. when you put it in, it is appending a file, not adding files to a directory.

By: Saurabh

Saurabh — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:31:37 +0000

I have seen amny sites which give instructions for passwordless connection. But this one is really very handy and truly works fine.

By: kc

kc — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 01:03:08 +0000

One other thing that you may want to check is that the authorized_keys file is not group and world read/write permissions set. It got me stumped until I did a tail on the messages/secure log file to understand what was happening.

By: zbtirrell

zbtirrell — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 13:09:12 +0000

I’d certainly be curious.

By: Marc

Marc — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 04:48:30 +0000

Maybe I’m paranoid, but having a private key without a passphrase freaks me out, so I use a key with a passphrase and then I use keychain (from the Gentoo project) to cache my decrypted keys in an ssh-agent process.

It’s too involved for me to post all the details, but if folks want, I could possibly detail it all in a blog post.

By: Life After Coffee » SSH Without A Password

Life After Coffee » SSH Without A Password — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 22:30:10 +0000

[...] Zach has posted a Zachgood quick reference for setting up SSH to use a shared key for authentication instead of a password on a UNIX system. It’s important to keep your keys secure, but this can allow you to set up scripts to execute commands or move files between multiple hosts without prompting for passwords. [...]

By: earle goodfellow

earle goodfellow — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 04:37:38 +0000

I was having trouble getting this working but a bit of research led me to making the authorized_keys file non group writeable… then it all burst into life

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 18 May 2006 12:39:18 +0000

Using these instructions I’ve just set up my Mac OSX desktop to connect to one of our servers without the need for a password.

I also saved the connection info in a terminal shortcut so I can connect to the server just as easily as I can open a terminal window.

Thanks for these instructions!

By: spiralbound.net » Changes to Solaris ssh_config for Password-less SSH Login

spiralbound.net » Changes to Solaris ssh_config for Password-less SSH Login — Mon, 08 May 2006 20:44:41 +0000

[...] Zach over at NoSheep has written a really nice article about how to configure a SSH trust relationship on UNIX systems. By doing this, you can prevent the system from prompting you for a password, thus allowing the user to use scripted solutions to move files around with sftp, etc. He didn’t mention, however, that to get this up and working correctly under Solaris, you have to uncomment the following lines in your /usr/local/etc/ssh_config file: [...]