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On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:07:20 +0100 James Fidell wrote: > Grant Sewell wrote: > > On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:37:55 +0100 > > James Fidell wrote: > > > > man ssh-keygen says: > > -N new_passphrase > > Provides the new passphrase. > > > > Can't really see how this would help. > > > > I think I have it sorted anyway: > > Ahh. I see the problem now... You couldn't log in as the nagios user > to generate the key because it didn't have a valid shell... > > When you said it "wasn't interactive" I thought you mean that no-one > would be there to enter the password when the ssh connection was made, > hence the -N '' option to generate an unpassworded key. > > Not sure there's really any way to do what you wanted without doing > pretty much what you did, tbh. > > James Ah, my bad. Sorry - I should explain myself more clearly. Yeah, having a quick route around it would seem the case. Could be wrong, but certainly it has worked. :) Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html