Kate questions

[Dotan Cohen]

On 4/21/06, Billy Pollifrone <billy at silverbaseball.com> wrote:
> On 4/21/06, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
>  On 4/21/06, John L Vifian <jongleur at liripipe.com> wrote:
> > There's a script lussh which can pretty much set up the authentication for
> you
> > which you can install via the lufs-utils package or it looks like you can
> > just grab the script here: http://tinyurl.com/puo4f
> >
> > John Vifian
>
> Thanks, I saved the script as script.sh, did chmod +x on it, and ran
> it for three servers. Am I to understand that for now I won't be
> prompted for passwords from those three servers? I did successfully
> ssh into one of the servers, but I don't want to restart the machine
> to check if it persists after a reboot. Does it?
>
> Also, for backup purposes, if I save /home/user/.ssh/id_rsa.pub and
> /home/user/.ssh/id_rsa will I be able to put them back into those
> places and login without a password?
>
>  You won't be prompted for a password unless you protected the keys with
> one, in which case it acts much the same as sudo. After some expiry period,
> you'd have to give it again.
>
>  Again, if your key isn't protected itself by a password, then it will
> persist across reboots/sessions. If you protected the key, the next session
> will prompt for the password.
>
>  Yes. You can back up the keys for later use.
>

Thank you very much for the information. I'm googling now to learn a
little more about RSA

Dotan Cohen
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