And hopefully, once you've read through all of that you've either:
1. Found the problem and fixed it! (Problem solved.) Or,
2. Lost all patience and decided it's too complicated and not worth the effort, you'll just use passwords. (Problem solved.)
I hope this has helped a little -- and maybe you're a little bit closer to #1 than #2 (giving up and using passwords) when all is said and done. Good luck!
(Apologies for the long post, everyone.)
Thank you very much for your input..
I have used keys and set up keys before, cant say I am an expert, but I've used them..
1. used puttygen to create the pair
2. put the public key into authorized_keys
3. set putty to use either pageant, or directly to the local priv key file..
still getting prompted.
I will start from scratch and try again.
I really want this to work, because I need to scp files to all ants..... especially /etc/init.d/cgminer . the start script is not allowing a switch pools command via rpc without this change.