SSH question

[Michael Velez]

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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Steve Buehler
> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 1:04 PM
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> Subject: SSH question
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> 	I have a client with a RHEL ES 4 box and a client of 
> theirs has a windows
> 2003 server box.  We can't get IPSec to work between the two 
> networks.  So now we are trying to work out a different way 
> for their RHEL box to access their windows box.  The tech on 
> the other side installed openssh for windows on the windows 
> server.  He says that you can't use a public key with the 
> windows version like you can with the linux version and we 
> will always have to enter a password to do the ssh tunnel.  
> Is there a way to run the ssh command so that it can start up 
> when the system starts and connect to the remote machine 
> putting in the password automatically when asked for it?  I 
> know this isn't as secure, but we are running out of options 
> trying to get the two servers to talk to each other.  They 
> have java programs on the RHEL box that need to connect 
> securely to MSSql on the windows box.
> 
> Thanks
> Steve
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I have both a Linux machine and several Windows XP machines on my home
network.  In order to have automated scripts work, I run ssh without a
password from one machine to the other (Linux to Windows and Windows to
Linux) from within my secure network, no problem.

I also do ssh tunneling without a password to get java apps on windows to
talk to my Oracle database on Linux and it works fine. Granted, I do the
tunneling from Windows to Linux; however, I would be surprised that the
opposite cannot be done.

I have installed Cygwin (www.cygwin.com) and their ssh onto all my windows
XP machines. 

It may be for security reasons that an ssh public key needs to have a
password at their site? Or has the client's client properly configured ssh? 

If you still want to use your workaround, I believe the 'expect' command
should work for you.  I use it to telnet to my modem to automatically get my
external IP address.  However, I'm not necessarily a proponent of including
a password into a script file.

Michael