From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-04-13T10:26:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Controlling an interactive program from Ruby

> > This is what I wantn to automate:
> > 
> > $ scp dcarrera@zeno:/data/tmp/filename some/directory/
> > $ dcarrera@zeno's password:
> 
> Passwords are unsafe.. take a look at ssh-keys.

I'll take a look at it.
Would you mind elaborating though?
Why are passwords unsafe?  I always thought it was the best we got.
I don't know what ssh-keys are, I'll google that.

Thanks a lot,
-- 
Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant.  Math Dept.
University of Maryland.  (301) 405-5137