On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Craig White wrote: > I should point out that when confronted with this need, I create the > certificate on the sshd and scp it to the local terminal and then I can > simply connect without passwords. This with entries short name entries Also, you may want to restrict so only certain hosts are allowed to connect without passwords. (Using from="..." in your authorized_keys.) Jeremy C. Reed http://www.reedmedia.net/