store passwords for SSH logins?

Dan Lund situationalawareness at gmail.com
Wed May 9 10:07:27 MST 2007


Well I do know that SSH is kerberos-ready, and can be integrated into a 
kerberos ticketing system.
It would then use kerberos for the authentication.

I find it much much much easier to distribute my keys across the 
infrastructure.

Nathan Aubrey wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 May 2007, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>   
>> I frequently use ssh-agent to store passwords associated with SSH keys.
>>
>> But does anyone know of a tool or way to store passwords for SSH logins
>> without a key?
>>
>> I use a SSH server for frequent manual transactions and it is an
>> inconvenience for me to re-enter password every time. It is not an option
>> for me to setup an SSH key on the server (I don't control it).
>>
>>   Jeremy C. Reed
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>
> Maybe I'm missunderstanding, but don't you create your key on your 
> workstation, not on the server? Then copy it to the .ssh/authorized_keys in 
> the home directory of the user you log in as?
>
> Or do you mean the initial keys that are created the very first time you run 
> sshd on the server?
>
> Nathan
>
>   



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