Re: [gentoo-user] Copying a file via ssh with no password, keeping the system safe

[Willie Wong]

On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 08:40:31PM +0200, Andrea Conti wrote:
> > Is there a way to allow only one single command from a single cronjob to
> > operate passwordless, while keeping all the other connections secured by
> > a password?
>
> You can't do that on a per-command basis. You'd be trying to control the
> authentication method accepted by sshd on B according to which command
> is run on A -- something sshd on B knows nothing about.
>

That's partially false. See my response in this thread. 

W
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