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watergrinder

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This question has been bugging me for a while. The crontab on a server runs under root. And I want to use ssh to remotely do actions on another server. In order to skip password each time a connection is made, ssh-keygen passphrase can be ignored. It may not pose a big security risk when done at user level, but could ssh-keygen (with no passphrase) be done at root level? Is there any other way? Thanks.
 
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sounds incredibly dodgy ... you're kinda saying that if you are wanting to connect as root on a remote system you're allowed to with no password, but if you want to log in as a normal user you have to specify a password ... :)
 
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you could however use the RSA Authentication protocol thingamy ...

man ssh (at least in my version :)
 
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