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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how to set up "passwordless" ssh login?

On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Rob Echlin wrote:

> Sounds like you could put a public key on the target. Good enough.
>
> Everyone can login to a special remote-supervisor account on some
> server, to connect to the target, and that account has the private
> key. Then you don't have to get keys from everyone in advance. With
> a passwordless connection to the target, this would be an easy extra
> step.
>
> You can add their keys to the server account when you need to, then
> they have passwordless access to that account.

  i think this is confirming my suspicions that there is no easy
workaround that i've overlooked.

rday

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