Thanks, Gunnar! On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 13:13:00 -0700, Gunnar Kramm <gkramm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
