From 5e9d09bd2118c98acd810f6e9041ddeaa8d6fdbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Akihiro Suda Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 16:02:26 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] docs, ssh: unsupport password auth explicitly The issue with password auth is tracked in #1476 and #1477 . Signed-off-by: Akihiro Suda (cherry picked from commit 16b014e062c3a95fc718140063e77af83d81af87) Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn Upstream-commit: 5e7f9d3c84967369165474efc393b4300e74592c Component: cli --- components/cli/docs/reference/commandline/dockerd.md | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/components/cli/docs/reference/commandline/dockerd.md b/components/cli/docs/reference/commandline/dockerd.md index 9feb4e8afa..4b50b78b19 100644 --- a/components/cli/docs/reference/commandline/dockerd.md +++ b/components/cli/docs/reference/commandline/dockerd.md @@ -191,7 +191,10 @@ $ docker -H ssh://example.com ps ``` To use SSH connection, you need to set up `ssh` so that it can reach the -remote host with public key authentication. +remote host with public key authentication. Password authentication is not +supported. If your key is protected with passphrase, you need to set up +`ssh-agent`. + Also, you need to have `docker` binary 18.09 or later on the daemon host. #### Bind Docker to another host/port or a Unix socket