Re: Connect with null passphrases

hi,

just do
ssh-keygen -t rsa
on the client and copy the result file to .ssh/authorized_keys2 on the server

Christian


2006/12/6, John Stefani <jstefani@xxxxxxxx>:
> Hello Everybody,
>
> I have some cron jobs that use ssh (version 4.4p1) to connect to other
> servers and run certain tasks.  The users in question sometimes are real
> users, sometimes fictitious users that I created only for running the cron
> job.  I changed to *NP* the password field of /etc/shadow for the
> fictitious users on the servers the cron jobs connect to, and all works
> happily.  Here's my problem:  those servers to which the cron job tries to
> connect to as a real user, who has a real password, does not allow ssh
> connections with null passphrases.  I can't set the password field in
> /etc/shadow to *NP* because sometimes I have to connect as the real user.
> Does someone know how I can connect automatically to a server, using ssh,
> as a user that has a password, but with a null passphrase?  Hope the above
> was not too confusing...
>
> Absolutely any thoughts or workarounds will be much appreciated.
>
>    John Stefani
>      jstefani _at_ yorku.ca