Re: Ssh Login with out a password or key

From: William Peckham (mrwbp_at_attbi.com)
Date: 05/31/03 

Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 00:26:48 GMT

"arnaud" <arnaud@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
news:3ed767dd$0$12444$626a54ce@news.free.fr...
> Hi,
>
> Darren Dunham wrote:
> > Oops, if you're going to say you can't use something, you have to say
> > why not. Otherwise I'm likely to recommend something that won't work
> > for the same reason. If you can't use a password, I'm assuming a
> > non-interactive application. Why can't you use authorized keys?
>
> I have the same problem. SSHd is installed in all our machines, but I
> want to be able to connect to them in non-interactive mode and without
> configuring any key.
> This is for a testbed in a lab.
>
> I simply want to use ssh as a mean to launch remote commands on windows
> 2000 without using netbios (in particular I do not want to use psexec).
>
> What I need is something like rsh, but as sshd is already installed I
> would like to use
> it. Unfortunately, from what I read, it is not possible to
> connect to a remote host using ssh without any authentication and
> encryption.
>
> Arnaud.
If you think about that, it makes very good sense. The entire purpose of
SSH is increased security as compared to FTP, TELNET, and the R* utilities.
Allowing sessions without security would be a corruption of its purpose. 

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