note 76812 added to function.ssh2-auth-pubkey-file

This is probably incredibly insecure but if you are in a closed environment, you can run it at your own risk. I was trying to get ssh access from server A to server B but server A was running apache as 'apache' and I needed files on server B that were owned by root. So I needed some way for the apache user to connect to server B as root. Here's what I did (both servers running linux - specifically CentOS4): 1. ssh-keygen -t rsa -f id_rsa generate with no passphrase 2. append the id_rsa.pub file to server B /root/.ssh/authorized_keys2 3. copy the id_rsa and id_rsa.pub files to a directory like /var/www/.ssh/ (happens to be apache's home dir on CentOS) 4. chown -R apache.apache /var/www/.ssh Then you can connect like this: $connection = ssh2_connect($server,22,array('hostkey'=>'ssh-rsa')); if (ssh2_auth_pubkey_file($connection,'root', '/var/www/.ssh/id_rsa.pub', '/var/www/.ssh/id_rsa')) { echo "success!"; } else { echo "no success :-("; } ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 68.50.0.243 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ssh2-auth-pubkey-file.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/76812 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76812/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76812/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76812/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76812/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76812/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76812/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76812 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/76812 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php