Re: [Sheflug] headless

[Guennadi Liakhovetski <nospam [at] ragingbull.com>]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Ian Wright wrote:

> or could it be automated (I know Mandrake has a facility for automatically
> loggin on as a particular user). If I still had to do it would I do a '.ssh
> <machine name> -l <user>' and would it then ask me for the password?

Hmmm What's the point in using ssh then if you don't use password?:-) I
know - your session gets encripted, but now anybody can do ssh -l <user>
<machine>:-) (I assume '.' in '.ssh' is a typo). Unless you use some sort
of host-based authentication (or setup directory permissions as
Alex just pointed out)... BTW, you can do that with rlogin - but then no
encription...

Cheers
Guennadi

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> Ian
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> > Not asking for a password: where does it actually ask? Does the BIOS ask
> for the password? If so, you need to turn off password-on-boot in the BIOS.
> Is lilo asking for a password? (Unlikely) You need to sort out your booting
> process :). Do you mean the login: prompt? No, you can't turn that off, and
> you don't need to. Remember, that's just allowing you to login and do
> things. That doesn't mean the machine is sitting there doing nothing.
> 
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Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Sheffield, U.K.
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