[plug] ssh-agent and manual login

[William Kenworthy]

Thanks - so simple I never though of doing it the easy way :)

BillK

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 20:11 +0800, Craig Foster wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
> Behalf Of William Kenworthy
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 8:01 PM
> To: Plug List
> Subject: [plug] ssh-agent and manual login
> 
> I have a couple of internal systems set up to allow ssh-agent to
> autologin and run backup scripts.  Works well, but I had to remove the
> norootlogin flag from sshd.conf.  Is there a way to refuse a manual root
> with password login, but still allow ssh-agent access?  I would prefer
> to login as a user and su to root for admin, but still need the
> ssh-agent access.
> 
> I suspect not, but hopefully someone will know a way around it.  Or is
> there another method not using ssh-agent for passwordless root logins
> across the network?
> 
> BillK
> 
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William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>
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