[CALUG] SSH question
Kelly Price
strredwolf at gmail.com
Thu Oct 27 09:46:51 CDT 2005
On 10/27/05, Jim Bauer <jfbauer at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 27 October 2005 09:58, Jason C. Miller wrote:
> > Working with Mr. Breen's suggestion of using dd and ssh to backup hard
> > drives, I was wondering if anybody knew off the top of their heads if
> > password-less login is required for this to work. If I try to pipe some
> > output into ssh (to be processed on the remote machine), does it matter if
> > I manually put in the password or not?
>
> No. ssh will read the password from /dev/tty not stdin.
I used this to back up a WinXP partition (booting off of a Gentoo LiveCD):
ssh root at infected tar cvzf - /mnt/hd/* > hosts/redwolf-xp.tgz
I wonder...
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Kelly "STrRedWolf" Price
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