[ale] SSH and passwords

[Christopher Fowler]

Can someone give me the command to build a key on a client so I can
transfer it to the remote and place it in the authorized keys folder of
the server?

Thanks

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 16:45, Jerald Sheets wrote:
> You can build keys and exchange the keys between the two hosts.  These
> keys will allow you to perform functions between the two hosts without
> having to enter a password.  
> 
> After that, you can run various commands between the two including
> copies and file manipulations, rsync (using the -e ssh flag) and others
> without ever having to reveal a password.
> 
> --J
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 16:31 -0500, David Corbin wrote:
> > If I know the proper password for logging in via ssh, is there anyway to 
> > "programmatically provide" (like from a script) that to the ssh client? 
> > Please don't lecture me about security and keys.  I understand it well 
> > enough. 
> > 
> >  I'm looking at implementing a tool to help set up keys between a set of 
> > machines with out them having to retype passwords too many times, so the 
> > passwords would not be stored.  As near as I can tell, it takes two "ssh 
> > invocations" to provide a key to a remote system, and a third to test it.  
> > Couple that, with the dozens of systems with the same passwords, and it would 
> > be quite helpful.
> > 
> > Near as I can tell, you can redirect stdin, and I can see no way to pass it as 
> > an argument or such.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > David
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