fabric password

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bocca picture bocca · Feb 26, 2010 · Viewed 41.4k times · Source

Every time fabric runs, it asks for root password, can it be sent along same for automated proposes.

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Answer

nkrkv picture nkrkv · Feb 26, 2010

I know you've asked about password but wouldn't it better to configure the system so that you can doing fabric (i.e. SSH) without password?

For this, on local machine do:

  1. ssh-keygen and agree with all defaults (if you have no reasons do otherwise)
  2. cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub and copy that key

On remote machine:

  1. mkdir ~/.ssh && chmod 700 ~/.ssh
  2. touch ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 && chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2
  3. Paste copied key into authorized_keys2

From now your remote machine “trusts” your local machine and allows logging it in without password. Handy.

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