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Re: [LUG] SSH passwordless login without keys

 

Neil Stone wrote:
> On Sat, November 8, 2008 19:51, Simon Williams wrote:
>> My new web hosts are being idiots and for some bizarre unknown reason
>> aren't allowing SSH logins with host keys, only passwords.
>>
>> So, does anyone know if there is a way of getting an SSH client to
>> automatically enter the password for me? Like a .netrc file?

> Get a new host.. or perhaps 'educate' the current one..

I was hoping to make SSH do automatic passwords so that I could prove to 
them that it wasn't any more secure.

I'm starting to wonder. They don't have any facility for mailing lists 
(which I would really like), and they've gone very quiet when I asked 
them about SSL/HTTPS.

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