21 Apr
2004
21 Apr
'04
16:50
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 20.31, Jim Sabatke wrote:
The wife hates anything that looks like UNIX or command lines or passwords. Is there any way I can have her press a button on one box to run a program on another box?
On the machine where she will be working, run "ssh-keygen -t rsa" and follow the prompts. Don't use a passphrase. That will create a file $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. Copy this file to $HOME/ssh/authorized_keys on the second machine. Now you can ssh to the second machine without giving a password Then simply create an icon on the desktop that runs "ssh -X secondmachine <command>"