Using ssh without being asked for a password.
Hey all,
I need to access a new network which is now protected by firewalls. These firewalls will disconnect sessions that are idle for over an hour, this is a problem for a lot of Sun protocols that don't use keepalives (another Sun only idea!!!) such as 'rlogin', 'rsh', 'telnet' etc.
I need to use a protocol such as 'ssh' or equivalent which uses keepalives to remote login to systems inside the protected network to overcome the firewall dropping the sessions. The systems inside this network are all on Solaris 8.
The thing is that I need to overcome 'ssh' requirement for password authentication, as the users are clicking on a menu application that automatically does a rsh and starts the application without prompting the user for any information (I know you should use ssh with authentication, but in this case I cannot use it). Has anyone been able to configure 'ssh' on a system wide basis for all users to not ask for a password, and use standard NIS authentication with the hosts.equiv instead.
I have found plenty of example of how to do this in Linux, but since Sun have decided not to implement ssh in the standard way like every other UNIX vendor and to use wrappers, none of those examples will work on Solaris.
If someone has found a way of overcoming the keepalive issue with rlogin, rsh etc. I'd be really interested in knowing the hack done to get it working, as I would prefer to avoid installing anything on those systems in the new network.
Thanks for reading,
Mick.
