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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Hiding password for FTP in a script Post 302250878 by sethcoop on Friday 24th of October 2008 01:21:39 PM
Old 10-24-2008
Generate your keys with the command "ssh-keygen".. take all default values... you will see the following and it will create two files for you... the public and private keys...

Code:
sethcoop@burn:~$ ssh-keygen
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/sethcoop/.ssh/id_rsa):
Created directory '/home/sethcoop/.ssh'.
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /home/sethcoop/.ssh/id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in /home/sethcoop/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
3c:58:48:6b:9e:9c:c3:72:1b:8f:a9:f8:a5:c4:31:29 sethcoop@burn
sethcoop@burn:~$ cd .ssh
sethcoop@burn:~/.ssh$ ls -al
total 16
drwx------ 2 sethcoop sethcoop 4096 2008-10-24 12:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 sethcoop sethcoop 4096 2008-10-24 12:15 ..
-rw------- 1 sethcoop sethcoop 1671 2008-10-24 12:16 id_rsa
-rw-r--r-- 1 sethcoop sethcoop  411 2008-10-24 12:16 id_rsa.pub
sethcoop@burn:~/.ssh$

now you can take the contents of the id_rsa.pub file and add it to the /home/userid/.ssh/authorized_keys file on the remote server.

Watch out for you permissions because they have to be correct.. ie (your home directory can only be user writable the .ssh direcotry should have 700 permissions and the authorized_keys file should have 600 permissions).

when you have the public key shared the you can type in
Code:
$ sftp userid@remotehost

and it will log you in...

hope this works... let us know if you have any troubles.
 

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NAME

       uudemon.admin,  uudemon.cleanu,	uudemon.hour,  uudemon.poll  -	Administrative shell scripts for polling remote systems, cleaning up spool
       directories, reporting status to the system administrator, and routine invocations of the uuxqt and uusched daemons

SYNOPSIS

       These shell scripts reside in the following directory:
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DESCRIPTION

       All the scripts can be run from the command line or can be run automatically by the cron daemon. To automatically run the  scripts,  remove
       the comment character (#) from the beginning of the relevant line in the /var/spool/cron/crontabs/uucp file.

       This  script  reports  status  to  the system administrator. It issues the uustat command to find out the status of uucp jobs. It mails the
       results to the uucp login ID. The script may be modified to send mail to any login ID such as the uucp administrative login ID  (uucpa)	or
       root.  This script cleans up the /var/spool/uucp and /var/spool/uucppublic directories by running the uucleanup command. The uucleanup com-
       mand is run with the following parameters: -C7, -D7, X2, -o2, -W1.  This script runs the uusched and uuxqt daemons in the background.  This
       script  polls  the  systems  listed  in	the  /usr/lib/uucp/Poll file.  The uudemon.poll script should be scheduled before the uudemon.hour
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FILES

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