[K12OSN] automated SSH pairs (cool!)

[Shawn Powers]

Ok, Les will be proud, I think I can (while using the insecure NFS
unfortunately) use the collective knowledge of the list and automate "on
the fly" keyspairs for the appserver.  I tried this manually (not scripted
into the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d directory, heck I didn't even know that
existed...) and it seemed to work:


ssh-keygen -t rsa -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa -C '' -N ''
ssh-keyscan -t rsa "appserver_ip" > ~/.ssh/known_hosts
ssh-keyscan -t rsa "appserver2_ip" >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2

Then, in those 4 automated steps, my user is keypaired to start
applications from appserver and appserver2.  (I know that "ssh-keyscan"
allows multiple IPs on the same command, but the comma separated list
wouldn't work for me.  Some things just aren't worth troubleshooting. :)

This DOES require /home to be the same on both machines, but so does
remote application stuff anyway, usually.

Thank you Immanuel, Gavin, Les, and anyone else that piped in on this
thread. :)

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Inland Lakes Schools
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