Remotelogin Scripts

yawe_frek · 12-16-2007, 01:54 PM

hi guys,

i am writing scritps that will enable me login to a remote server and scp specific files and folder. but i seem to be having a little problem with how to encrypt the password.
e.g

#!/bin/bash

ssh <host>
password:xiedirirr

now my problem, how can i encrypts this passwd.

I need help?

SiegeX · 12-16-2007, 02:28 PM

Don't use password authentication if you want to do remote ssh'ing within a a script. Instead you RSA key authentication that requires no password at all. Check out this link

http://www.enterprisenetworkingplane...le.php/3469681

yawe_frek · 12-17-2007, 02:21 AM

thanks for the reply, it really made things muh easier, bt could you knindly give me an example of how that part of the script would look like.

will it be something like this

#!/bin/bash

ssh <host>
password: rsa or dsa key

kindly confirm.am i rigth or...

Thanks

tredegar · 12-17-2007, 04:52 AM

Quote:

ssh <host>
password: rsa or dsa key

kindly confirm.am i rigth or...

No.
When you have set up key-authentication you just ssh hostname and bang! You are connected.
The key authentication handshake is handled automatically by ssh

SiegeX · 12-17-2007, 05:47 PM

I just looked at the link I gave you, it isn't very clear. This link is much better

http://www.cs.umd.edu/~arun/misc/ssh.html

yawe_frek · 12-17-2007, 07:29 PM

nice one this tutorial is really cool, but since i wont be using any passwd, is there any use of ssh-agent program to manage passwd. i am ok without a pw or what do u think.

Thnaks.