SSH without password

[Mr R A Mercer]

Michael Sullivan wrote:
> I've got two computers, a server and a client.  The server doesn't have
> a monitor hooked up to it, so I always access it from the client through
> SSH.  I want to be able to ssh over to the server from the client PC
> without having to type in my password every time.  I scp'd my
> ~/.ssh/known_hosts file over to the server, but it still asks me for my
> password every time I log in over there (which is quite often
> actually.)  What else do I have to do to avoid having to enter my
> password every time?
> -Michael Sullivan-

These series of articles by Daniel Robbins are very useful

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-keyc.html
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc2/
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-keyc3/

They discuss the use of keychain 
(http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychain/index.xml) to se up secure 
passwordless ssh access

Cheers

Adam