If you don't want to proect the private key without passphrase, you dont need worry anything. That is, you dont need to run ssh-agent, nor do you need to load the private keys to that ssh-agent. However, if you want to protect using a private key, you gott export that socket id, and agent pid. Doing the latter requires some scripting, some changes to .profile of that oracle user. You can use the script at http://mah.everybody.org/docs/ssh Or, you can use the big shell script called keychain developed by gentoo http://pkgsrc.se/security/keychain On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Sridhar <sridhara.m@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Hi Kathy/Atul, > > > > I am configuring 10g RAC on vmware (RHEL AS4 & 2 nodes).When I am > configuring ssh without password I am unable to do so. > > Please see the steps I followed > > rac1 > > cd /home/oracle/ > > mkdir .ssh > > chmod 700 .ssh > > cd .ssh > > ssh-keygen rsa > > ssh-keygen dsa > > > > Performed same steps on rac2 > > > > then at rac1 > > touch authorized_keys > > ssh rac1 cat /home/oracle/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> authorized_keys > > --followed steps > > ssh rac1 cat /home/oracle/.ssh/id_dsa.pub >> authorized_keys > > --followed steps > > ssh rac2 cat /home/oracle/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> authorized_keys > > --followed steps > > ssh rac2 cat /home/oracle/.ssh/id_dsa.pub >> authorized_keys > > chmod 644 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys > > > > performed the same steps at rac2 > > > > --establish user equivalency > > as oracle user > > exec /usr/bin/ssh-agent $SHELL > > /usr/bin/ssh-add > > > > then i typed > > at rac1 > > ssh rac1 date --asking me the password (without password if i enter it is > asking me password > > ssh rac2 date --- same above > > at rac2 > > > > ssh rac1 date --same above > > ssh rac2 date --same above > > > > Any good suggestion (I can use rsh/rcp) to resolve ssh without password. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Dr.M.Sridhar > > Team Lead > > Vertex Computer Systems