SSH without password
Gunnar Kramm
gkramm at speakeasy.net
Sat Sep 4 20:13:00 UTC 2004
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
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