[X-Unix] rsync/ssh help

[Alexandre Gauthier]

I'd suggest (if you are so inclined) that you look into ssh-agent. There is
an OS X version with a GUI.

That way, you can protect your private key with a passphrase that will make
it useless to someone who obtains it, and only have to enter it once :)


On 23/03/06 17:11, "Russell McGaha" <RussellMcGaha at direcway.com> wrote:

> All;
> I re did everything from scratch and aside from having to delete a
> line-feed in my rsa key, it started working.
> 
> Russell
> 
> On Mar 23, 2006, at 3:55 PM, Brian Medley wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 03:52:44PM -0600, Russell McGaha wrote:
>> 
>>> Marlry;
>>> THANKS, for the reply.  Tried your suggestion, but it didn't work.
>>> The remote still asks me for my password.  Don't know if it makes a
>>> difference; but it's a 10.4.5 Mac going to a 10.3.9 Mac.
>>> Any further suggestion; anyone??
>>> 
>>> Russell
>>> 
>>> P.S.  Just so happens, while I'm here at work the two machines are
>>> side by side.  My work machine has an external IP that I'm trying to
>>> connect thru.
>> 
>> Could be permissions.  I use:
>> 
>> [bpm at snafu] c:~>ls -lFad ~
>> drwxr-x--x   676 bpm  bpm  22984 Mar 23 15:54 /Users/bpm/
>> [bpm at snafu] c:~>ls -lFad .ssh
>> drwx------   11 bpm  bpm  374 Mar  5 16:08 .ssh/
>> [bpm at snafu] c:~>ls -lFad .ssh/authorized_keys
>> -rw-r--r--   1 bpm  bpm  889 Sep 23 10:23 .ssh/authorized_keys
>> [bpm at snafu] c:~>
>> 
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