Going MAD trying to get scp working on Solaris8 - Horah - Its res olved - Or Is it....

From: Wright, Gary <Gary.Wright(at)uk.experian.com>
Date: Thu Jun 19 2003 - 11:01:46 EDT

MANY MANY MANY MANY THANKS to everyone for replying to my email, scp is now working without entering a password or passphrase. It works by entering NO passphrase when creating the key files (on both servers) and by setting (PubkeyAuthentication yes) in sshd_config As soon as these changes were made and the SSHD daemons were re-started, all was fine :-)))

My only remaining question is, isn't it VERY insecure to use NULL pass phrases, all SSH documentation warns against using null pass phrases. Is it not possible to copy file(s) via scp and using passphases ?

Further investigation reveals that you can set a passphrase as recommended and then use the eval 'ssh-agent' and ssh-add commands to add the passphrase to the running agent. This looks great, BUT it appears that a user has to enter the passphrase every time the agent is called. I know I must be missing something as you must be able to add the pass-phrase once only, and then be able to use scp whenever from scripts/cronjobs etc.

Can anyone please tell me how I now complete the final piece of the puzzle and add the passphrase ONCE enabling a user to use scp whenever (interactively,
scripts, cronjobs etc).

Thanks Again for your all your help.

Regards,

Gary.

Gary Wright
Oracle Technical Team Leader
Host Strategy
Experian Ltd

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