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Re: [LUG] Key-based SSH login for non-interactive user?

 

Grant Sewell wrote:

> We're trying to setup key-based SSH logins for the Nagios service so it
> can monitor some of our other servers remotely via SSH.  I've setup
> key-based SSH logins on my home server, but that was for me... an
> interactive user account.  As I said, I'm having a bit of a dead-brain
> week (see me previous posts on other topics for confirmation of this)
> and I can't for the life of me think how to generate the RSA keys for
> the Nagios user account on the SSH client machine.

Personally I'd use NRPE for this rather than connecting over SSH.

Or, rather, personally I *do* use NRPE for this :)

James

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