Re: [MLUG] using ssh with no password?

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Did creating the usual ssh-keygen key pairs for login without password not
work? IF you just do that then your account on this machine can run
commands on the remote host without any password.

> Yes, this is a micro-optimization question, but...
>
> I was thrilled when I stumbled on the fact that merlin.missouri.edu
> would accept an ssh connection.  (Thrilled because it safeguards
> against the almost negligible chance that somebody could do anything
> interesting with the stuff I type in when I'm viewing my
> circulation record, and because checking merlin was about
> the very last uses of a telnet client I had anywhere.)
>
> The only remaining wart is that merlin prompts me for a password
> even though it settles for any non-empty one.  As best as I can
> tell, there's no additional command-line option I can give that
> would prevent this, so that the completely trivial shell script:
>
>    #!/bin/tcsh
>    ssh -l library merlin.missouri.edu
>
> could just be invoked as "merlin" and blast me right through to
> the search screen.  Is this correct?
>
> If it is or isn't, is there any handy way to do anything
> "expect"-like inside an ssh session?
>
> Thanks.
>
> jking
>
>
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