in reply to Re: moving files via ssh
in thread moving files via ssh

Cheers. How does the key thing happen automaticaly? i have a key file for the machine, do i need to copy this to any specific directory? i realy want this copy to run overnight (non-interactivly), so i don't want it asking for passwords or locations of key files.

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Re: Re: Re: moving files via ssh
by zentara (Cardinal) on May 13, 2003 at 16:00 UTC
    Simple summary:

    challenge-response authentication.

Generate your ssh-keys with <ssh-keygen -d> for ssh2.

You will have the files $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa.pub and $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa.

The id_dsa.pub - file is your public key. Copy that file to the target
+ to
$HOME/.ssh/machinename.pub and do a
"cd .ssh; cat machinename.pub >>authorized_keys".

Now you should be able to connect to the target
machine via ssh without using passwords.

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Re: Re: Re: moving files via ssh
by zby (Vicar) on May 13, 2003 at 13:59 UTC
    On a unix box you achive this by the cron daemon. The documentation how to use it you can find with: man crontab.
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