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- > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list 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@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. -- Gunnar vS Kramm San Francisco, CA http://www.thekramms.com gpg public key: http://thekramms.com/keys/gkramm.gpg
