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Re: [LUG] SSH passwordless login without keys

 

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 06:57:54PM +0000, Simon Williams wrote:
> 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.

Um...so they think passwords are more secure than keys? Are they high?

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