Re: MC ssh login without password

[Frank Dietrich <ABLEsoft gmx de>]

Hi,

Anze <anzenews volja net> wrote:
> > > Is there a way to automate this login _without_ doing anything
> > > on the server side? It should be doable, but every site I
> > > googled talks about keygen and putting the part of the key on
> > > the server...
> >
> > Have you tried to create an ssh-key and login with this key
> > instead of the password? "man ssh" says how to do this.
>
> Could you please be a bit more specific? I do not have much
> experience in ssh and "man ssh" doesn't really help - it talks about
> agents, keys,... it's all greek to me. :)

It's not that complicated:

ssh-keygen -b 2048 -f name_for_the_file

-b 2048 -- genreate a secret key with a length of 2048 bit
-f ...  -- generate the file and file.pub where your private and
           public keys will be saved

> Let me point out that I'm looking for a solution that would _not_
> require to put anything on the server (keys and similar). Is this
> even possible? 

May be that's not possible. If you don't use keys there is no way to
store the password somewhere. For security reasons. If it would be
possible you had to store it in plain text. Which would not be a good
idea.

And if you decide to use keys, you have to store your public key below
your ~/.ssh directory on the server. Why you want to avoid this?

regards
Frank
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