On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 02:57:21PM +0200, Holger van Lengerich wrote:
Hi,
Use public key authentication as opposed to hard coding the username and password.
Authorization through .shosts or .ssh/authorized_keys should work fine (man ssh). But using an RSAkey without password isn't more secure than using a stored plaintext-password. ;-)
Wouldn't it make sense to have an ssh-agent running, knowing the identity that the backup script needs to log in to the remote machine? This looks like an improvement to me over passphrase-less keys, but I don't know if that again has its own risks. Peter -- Peter Poeml poeml at suse.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day...