On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 15:47, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
I've seen a thread or 2 here before about this, but I can't
seem to find them. I use ssh
to login to a few different hosts on a regular basis. I
want to set it up so I don't have
to enter my password. How do I do this?
On each host, as what ever user you are going to be using, do the following.
1) ssh-keygen -t rsa (hit enter when asked for a password)
Now add the content of your ~/.ssh/id_rsa file to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on each host you are logging into. If the authorized_keys file is not there create it.
You will actually want to add ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to your ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file, not ~/.ssh/id_rsa, and ~/.ssh/authorized_keys should also have perms of 600:
$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys $ chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
The ~/.ssh/id_rsa is your key, which needs to be present on the system you are logging in from. NEVER give this out, as whomever has it can login to your system.
Some other things to mention are make sure in your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file you have the following specified:
RSAAuthentication yes PubkeyAuthentication yes
This worked. Thanks.
-- Andrew Gaffney
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