On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Adam D. McKenna wrote:
This will work if you have no passphrase on your RSA key. This is a *really* stupid thing to do, IMHO, especially to a root account, as anyone who manages to get access to your ~/.ssh/identity file will be able to log into any host that you have set this up on, without a password. While it's a little more secure than .rhosts authentication, the absence of any kind of password/passphrase validation makes it (again IMHO) an undesirable option for the security conscious.
Well, you can use ssh-agent. Then its rsh equivalent and your identity is still protected. ---Ingo Luetkebohle, CTO dev/consulting Gesellschaft fuer Netzwerkentwicklung und -beratung mbH url: http://www.devconsult.de/ - fon: 0521-1365800 - fax: 0521-1365803