Script to set up ssh login access

[prl]

A script to set up ssh login access via public key without needing to allow access by password first.

Copy your ssh config files for the Beyonwiz (authorized_keys, config, etc) into directory ssh (or any other name, but preferably not .ssh) onto a disk that your Beyonwiz can access (internal hard drive, thumb drive, network share, etc), put this script into the ssh directory. Then connect the drive if necessary, and run the script using MENU>Files / Sources.

You should then have your ssh access set up. The script itself won't be left in your /home/root/.ssh directory.

If there was already a .ssh directory installed, the script will replace it completely, so you can use the script to allow access even if the box has an ssh public key that you don't have the private key for.

It can be changed to install the .ssh files for other users by editing the HOME variable in the script.

Script contents:

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#!/bin/sh

DIR=`dirname $0`
SCRIPT=`basename $0`
HOME=/home/root

rm -rf "$HOME"/.ssh
cp -a "$DIR" "$HOME/.ssh"
chmod 700 "$HOME"/.ssh
chmod 644 "$HOME"/.ssh/*
rm "$HOME"/.ssh/"$SCRIPT"

The script is designed primarily to be run from File Commander (MENU>Files / Sources), but it it can be run from the commandline provided it's run with the path of the script, and not by finding the script via the shell PATH variable. The script is intended to be used to allow network access to the commandline whan you don't have that access already, so I don't regard that as a bug, even if you do

[Grumpy_Geoff]

A not too-dissimilar alternative I've previously used is to put the ssh key on a thumb drive and use File Commander actions to create the /home/root/.ssh directory, copy the ssh key, and do the chmods. This didn't require command line access.

[peteru]

You really only ever need to set up the keys once and then backup the config.

[prl]

You really only ever need to set up the keys once and then backup the config.

Except when, why I don't know, .ssh doesn't get backed up.

[MrQuade]

Except when, why I don't know, .ssh doesn't get backed up.

That folder was added to the standard list of backed up locations wasn't it?

[prl]

Except when, why I don't know, .ssh doesn't get backed up.

That folder was added to the standard list of backed up locations wasn't it?

Yes, it was, but someone switched mine off sometime.

And every now and then I need to do a clean USB update.