Another option: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/noninteractive-shell-script-ssh-password-provid er/ Boy, am I embarrassed... ET kitepilot@kitepilot.com writes: > To have a program to "type" a password for me. How? > Hello widespread wisdom... > > I want to propagate public keys to several dozens of puters so I can login > passwordless. > > I am not looking forward to typing (or cut'n pasting) a password a gazillion > times. They all have the same username/password combination. > > I know that expect can be used to "type" a password (or to fool passwd to > change a password without manual intervention), but I don't know how. > > What I want is ti fire a loop to copy my keys to all the machines and to > have the program to "type" the username and the password to free me up from > the dull stuff. > > This *HAS* to be possible, does anybody know how? > Thanks! :) > ET > > PS: No, I haven't researched this, this question is the beginning of my > research... > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss