Re: is there any easy way for ssh password free setup?

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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 06:50:55 +0000 (UTC)

walala <mizhael@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear all,

> I want to auto-logon on to 50+ machines and do some dumb stuff; our local
> machines use SSH for remote connection. I know I can setup ssh to setup
> password free authentication...

> I know that I need to copy-paste something and put a file which is a public
> key onto some directory of that host, then next time it will know me and
> will not ask for password...

> But consider doing that firsttime-authentication-setup is really
> troublesome, I need to do that stuff 50+ times... and also I am not very
> clear about how to do that exactly, even after reading many tutorials on
> line many times...since I am not very professonal to unix...

> So my question is: is there any easy way to do that ssh password free
> firsttime authentication setup?

> I have here SSH Secure Shell software, everytime I logon onto a new site, it
> will ask me if "something needs to be saved and kept"... I am not sure about
> this, but I guess if I click "yes", then even I don't use that software, and
> just use plain command "ssh remotesite.xxx.xxx.xxx" will need no password;

> So will SSH Secure Shell software do that firsttime setup for me if I press
> "save and keep" stuff?

> Second, I currently have some sites did not use that option, and that screen
> does not appear again when I logon to that very same site, how can I
> reactivate that screen ask for "save and keep" in SSH Secure Shell Software?

> Thanks a lot,

> -Walalal

Boy how sorry i feel for you. Setting up 50+ ssh keypairs !

Why don't you drop all pretentions about security and do a '+ +'
in /etc/hosts.equiv and start working. What ? In 50 systems ?
Ok. Install windows then and use any available crack to manage
your systems. Thats zero-efforts !

Seriously. If you need something you most likley will have
to pay something. Like some man-hours etc.

Setting up sshd keypair might take a few minutes per host,
multiply with 50+ and you will get a few hours. If you had
started yesterday you _would_ have been done by now.

-- 
Peter Håkanson         
        IPSec  Sverige      ( At Gothenburg Riverside )
           Sorry about my e-mail address, but i'm trying to keep spam out,
	   remove "icke-reklam" if you feel for mailing me. Thanx.

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