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Unless you want to use headless logins...

An example would be a cron job that copies files to a backup server via scp or rsync over ssh. However, this should also be accompanied by host filters in the authorized_keys file to restrict access to specific hosts.

Using pastebin for this is wrong on so many levels.



For obvious reasons, you're much better off generating a new keypair for that (not reusing any existing private keys).


Automating ssh, however, is surprisingly painful.


This is why Net::SSH and Paramiko are so wonderful. Using the OpenSSH binaries through a pair of pipes is certainly a pain, but if you grok the protocol, either of those libraries can make it really easy to wire up secure pipes between machines.


Why wouldn't you just generate a new key pair?


With python you have Fabric and paramiko which makes automating ssh very strait forward.




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