[rhn-users] Disabling password prompt on ssh

[Brian T. Brunner]

According to the (hopefully) useful hints you posted, it appears that my system is using ssh2 instead of openssh.

This makes some sense: I misunderstood some things (damned noobs anyhow) and installed ssh2 when I only needed openssh.

To make confusion less discernable from frank error, the two packages (ssh2 and openssh) appear to have several routine names in common.

So: How does one *completely* remove ssh2, or otherwise make openssh the *undisputed* toolset?

Evidently rpm doesn't know anything about ssh2 so it can't do the erase operation.

If I should have been saying openssl instead of openssh in any of this, please re-read the section titled "damned noobs anyway".


Brian Brunner
brian.t.brunner at gai-tronics.com
(610)796-5838

>>> edrandom at gmail.com 07/15/04 01:57PM >>>
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:48:13 -0300, André Goddard Rosa
<andre.goddard at gmail.com> wrote:

> How can I disable the user interactive password prompt when using ssh over
> RedHat Enterprise Linux?

I parsed this as "we want to log on to our RHEL box without typing a password".

We use SSH Public Key authentication exactly for this purpose, in
combination with the SSH Agent. For Windows clients, I recommend PuTTY
with Putty Agent (pageant).

"SSH - The Definitive Guide" published by O'Reilly is a great book on
the subject. There are some useful hints and tips on the accompanying
website, http://www.snailbook.com/ 

Check http://www.snailbook.com/faq/ - it has a section on logging in
without passwords: 
(http://www.snailbook.com/faq/no-passphrase.auto.html)

HTH!

-- 
Gxis!
  Ed.


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