Hi,

I have a win2k3 web edition server that has an account with 2 batch files in it that stop a service and start a service.

From my windows desktop i can use putty to log into the server over ssh. However, I want to use a https web page to send a ssh command over the net to run either of the 2 bat files. The web server is a linux based one.

After looking at this page which gives the syntax for ssh http://www.linuxforum.com/shell/ssh/65-11.php there doesnt seem to be a way of specifying a password to use to log in.

Can you specify a password?
If you cant can you point me in the right direction of what i should be looking into?

Thanks for any help or pointers.

Public key authentication beats having to type your password everytime :-)

Look at this helpful article

Maybe that'll help you.

Arjan

I have taken a look at that article and i dont see how it is more advantageous over a password. It says that everytime i open a session i have to supply the passphrase, so how is that different to supplying the password?

I am new to this public/private key stuff so i am expecting there to be advantages, i just cant quite see it from that article.

That's only if you apply a password to your SSH private key. If you don't do that, you don't have to supply a password. We use PK authentication to automate nightly backups over our systems over SSH/SFTP.