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On Tuesday 12 July 2016 17:48:33 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 12/07/2016 17:42, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > Is there a guide to setting up password-less authentication to enable me |
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> > to do this? |
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> http://www.funtoo.org/Keychain |
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Thanks Alan. I don't think it's the one I read before but it looks useful |
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anyway. |
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> Note that you, portage and root are 3 different users, so you must make |
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> key pairs for each on each source machine you will ssh from. |
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> Then you need to add each of those user's public keys to each |
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> destination user's authorized_keys file on each machine you want to ssh to. |
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> That can be a lot of key copying :-) 3 x 3 x # of machines |
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> Finally, on each machine you will ssh from and as each user who will do |
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> the ssh'ing, you must run keychain at least once to store the key creds. |
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> They should then persist until reboot, when you must run keychain again |
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> for each user. |
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Hmm. I may end up just allowing ssh password authentication and relying on my |
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vDSL router to keep other people's noses out of my business. The portage user |
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can't log in anyway, so its scp-ing and rsyncing would have to be done by |
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root. |
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> The idea is that a given user's keychain creds are valid over all that |
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> user's login sessions on a machine. Users cannot share each other's |
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> keychain |
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You've given me plenty to think about - thanks again. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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