Passwordless SSH using LSF-cloud

[Thomas Dack]

So we recently set up a new Jenkins instance implemented onto our LSF batch system, and we are currently trying to set it up so that it can submit jobs to the queue. As Jenkins exists within the batch system itself we'd ideally like to do this without giving the Jenkins user a password, as it only needs to SSH into itself, preferably either having it not require a password at all or use a key pair. At current the LSF-cloud plugin requires a password and we cannot see a way to use it without one without modifying the plugin itself. Does anyone have any pointers of other things to try or will it be a case of modifying the plugin?

Cheers,

Tom