[kwlug disc.] bash script basics

[Kyle Spaans]

On 2/10/07, Andrew Cant <acant at alumni.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 06:30:23PM -0500, Kyle Spaans wrote:
> No:
> Bash cannot manipulate an interactive console program.
OK, excellent thank you!

> Your alternative is public key authentication in SSH. The gist of the
> scheme is your have a private key on your work station, and place its
> public key counter-part on each of your remote machines. SSH will then be able to
> authenticate connections from your workstation to the remote machines
> without asking for a password.
That's exactly what it's doing actually! The command I run just does
it all in one step for me. But even then, I would have to do that
key-adding process on all 100+ machines!
:P