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 Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 13:23:02 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password Message-ID: <20041010172302.GF14377@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <7f3c737ef2b4.7ef2b47f3c73@tampabay.rr.com> <41696CEF.3EA3F0E@dessent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41696CEF.3EA3F0E@dessent.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 10:10:07AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >gmiller@cfl.rr.com wrote: >>I wanted to add a little bit to the thread in regards to setup of ssh. >>To generate the public and pro\ivate key pairs needed to login with out >>a password prompt requires the use of the "ssh-keygen" utility. From >>your home directory using the following sequence to generate a key >>pair. > >Better to just run "ssh-user-config" which does this for you, among >other things. If there are deficiencies in that script (or >ssh-host-config) then they should be fixed, rather then having users >circumvent the scripts and "wing it". Right. It's especially important that we don't fill the archives with 27 different ways of doing something that ssh-user-config is supposed to be doing for you. If we need to improve things so that we advertise ssh-user-config better then that's a great project for someone who wants to contribute to setup.exe. cgf -- 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/