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[Jonathan Allen]

Kevin,

> Generate a key:
> 
> ssh-keygen -t dsa
> 
> It will ask you for a passphrase. If you leave it blank your private key 
> will be unprotected. If you set the passphrase you will need to start 
> ssh-agent and add your keys before you do the Xnest.
> 
> Next copy your public key to the known_hosts file on the target machine.
> 
> cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub |ssh servername "cat >>~/.ssh/known_hosts"
> 
> (That command looks ugly but it was my attempt at not clobbering the 
> known_hosts file if there already is one) Now "ssh servername" should 
> login without a password.

Wonderful - thank you.  Cooking with gas now ...

Jonathan