Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Question about "rexec" Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 15:33:25 -0700 Lines: 179 Message-ID: References:

<000901c320a7$011f94a0$6400a8c0@FoxtrotTech0001> <001b01c320a7$b299d880$6400a8c0@FoxtrotTech0001> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030515 Thunderbird/0.1a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <001b01c320a7$b299d880$6400a8c0@FoxtrotTech0001> Please don't email me directly, keep it on the list... Bill C. Riemers wrote: >Opps I made a typo in those instructions... > >$ ssh-keygen -t rsa > $ ssh-keygen -t rsa Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/us/adefaria/.ssh/id_rsa): Hmmm... Guess I'll just default it... Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): Enter same passphrase again: open \033[6~ failed: No such file or directory. Saving the key failed: . Well that didn't work! Hmmm.... $ touch ~/.ssh/id_rsa $ ssh-keygen -t rsa Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/us/adefaria/.ssh/id_rsa): /us/adefaria/.ssh/id_rsa already exists. Overwrite (y/n)? y Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): Enter same passphrase again: Your identification has been saved in /us/adefaria/.ssh/id_rsa. Your public key has been saved in /us/adefaria/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. That appeared to work. Strange... >Generating public/private rsa key pair. >Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): >Enter same passphrase again: >... >$ ssh remotehost.com mkdir .ssh 2>>/dev/null > Testing this with an ssh $(hostname) id so I don't think I need to mkdir. Did this command anyway... >$ ssh remotehost.com tee -a .ssh/authorizedkeys < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >2>>/dev/null > OK... >$ chmod go-rwX ~/. ~/.ssh > OK... >$ ssh remotehost.com chmod go-rwX . .ssh > OK... Now for the test: ssh $(hostname) id adefaria@adefaria's password: Darn! Still need to enter my password! Any other ideas? > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Bill C. Riemers" >To: ; "Andrew DeFaria" >Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 5:13 PM >Subject: Re: Question about "rexec" > > > > >>$ ssh-keygen -t rsa >>Generating public/private rsa key pair. >>Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): >>Enter same passphrase again: >>... >>$ ssh remotehost.com mkdir .ssh >>$ ssh remotehost.com tee -a authorizedkeys < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >>$ chmod go-rwX ~/. ~/.ssh >>$ ssh remotehost.com chmod go-rwX . .ssh >> >>Walla, a password is nolonger required to login to remotehost.com . >> >> Bill >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Andrew DeFaria" >>To: >>Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 5:02 PM >>Subject: Re: Question about "rexec" >> >> >> >> >>>Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>On Wed, 21 May 2003, David HALE wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>Hi, >>>>> >>>>>I am writing a shell script that needs to execute commands on a remote >>>>>system using "rexec". I want to do this without typing in a password >>>>> >>>>> >>every >> >> >>>>>time the "rexec" command executes. The way I see it the "rexec" >>>>> >>>>> >command > > >>in >> >> >>>>>CYGWIN does not allow a password to be passed. I have tried to use a >>>>>".netrc" file (to supply the password) with the format: >>>>> machine remote_machine_name login remote_username password string >>>>>I have not been able to get this to work. I cannot find a man page or >>>>> >>>>> >>other >> >> >>>>>CYGWIN documentation for "rexec" or ".netrc". >>>>> >>>>>Is it possible to do this with CYGWIN? >>>>> >>>>>David Hale >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>Umm, why not use "ssh"? >>>>Igor >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>When I use ssh I get prompted for a password. >>> >>> >>> >>>-- >>>Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >>>Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >>>Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >>>FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ >>> >>> >>> >> >>-- >>Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >>Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >>Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >>FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ >> >> >> > > > > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/