Have you tried ssh-keygen without a passphrase? the switch
ssh-keygen -t dsa
gives you the option of having an empty passphrase, at least on FC3 and
our home-grown version of Linux. I'm not sure about Solaris, but if
you're using openSSH, it should be the same.
-Bryn
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Bryn Smith (Ms.)
System Administrator
Blast Internet Services
919-545-2547 (800)-24-BLAST
http://www.blast.com
On Sep 16, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Joseph Vaughn wrote:
Hello
I hope someone can help me with the following problem.
Background: We are using SUN hosts running Solaris9. For more than
15 years we have had our users launch a Cshell script to create a tar
file. It also does ftp data transfer in the background for archiving
on remote Macintosh computers. The users just type the name of the
script on the command line and then he/she enters a file name. The
process uses .netrc which contains the remote password. Permissions
are set so that the users cannot read the contents of .netrc.
So, the user does not know the password on the archiving host. Of
course ftp has huge security problems. So, I am trying to create a
similar process using sftp. I have tried to do this using SUN's
Solaris9 ssh-keygen, ssh-agent, ssh-add, etc. I have tried
"passwordless" sftp setups I have found on websites. This description
is improper. They don't require your normal password, but they do
require a new "passphrase" (ie a new password).
My question: Help?! Can you tell me how to get Solaris9's version
of sftp/ssh to work in such a fashion as I described above. That is,
sftp launched with a Cshell script and have the password/passphrase
entered in the background perhaps by another shell script, which is
called by the first one.
Regards.
Joseph Vaughn
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Dr. Joseph Vaughn
NMR Facility Associate Director
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4390
850-644-3334 Phone
850-644-8281 Fax
vaughn@chem.fsu.edu
