SSH without password

[Gunnar Kramm]

On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 02:35:20PM -0500, 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-
> 
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You can use ssh public/private keys to handle the authentication for your
user.

The first thing you need is to create a ssh key pair on the client

[you at client]# ssh-keygen -t dsa -b 1024

When prompted for a paraphrase leave it blank.  
Save the id_dsa  id_dsa.pub to your ~/.ssh directory.  This should be the default setting.

next copy the ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub file to the server and save it in your
~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 file on the server.


you should no be able to ssh to the server from the client without being
asked for a password.



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Gunnar vS Kramm
San Francisco, CA
http://www.thekramms.com

gpg public key: 
http://thekramms.com/keys/gkramm.gpg