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
