On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 07:20:09PM +0100 or thereabouts, Greig A Cowan wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> > Moreover, Greig is working on a script to automate file transfers between
> > two pools.
>
> I'm doing this right now, but I'm trying to make the process a little
> smoother. At the moment my scripts generate a list of the pnfs IDs of the
> files in the pool that has to be removed. The scripts then loop over this
> list, entering the admin interface, removing a file and then exiting.
> This process repeats for each file. Obviously this means that it I need to
> manually enter the password each time I login to the admin interface. This
> solution becomes very annoying if you have more than a handful of files
> (although it's probably not as bad as performing the entire process by
> hand!). Has anyone managed to successfully use ssh keys to speed up access
> to the admin interface?
>
> At the moment, my ~/.ssh/config file on the admin node contains:
>
> Host dcache_admin
> Hostname localhost
> user admin
> Port 22223
> Cipher blowfish
> Ciphers blowfish-cbc
>
> Does anyone know how would I go about creating a key-pair for
> admin@localhost? I know how to do this when I am logging into a remote
> machine when I have access to a shell, but I'm not too sure how to do it
> in the case of the dCache admin interface.
You could also try using autoexpect and expect to program the interaction
with ssh server.
Steve
>
> Thanks,
> Greig
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