Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 10:37:52 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I get SSH to not ask for my password? Message-ID: <20020512103752.A29162@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <3CDD9588.96ED7F2D@pantherdragon.org>; from dmp@pantherdragon.org on Sat, May 11, 2002 at 03:04:56PM -0700 References: <3CDD9588.96ED7F2D@pantherdragon.org>
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On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 03:04:56PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> The other day I saw a machine with SSH set up in such a way that it
> didn't ask for a password, even though there was a password on the shell
> account the user was connecting to. How is this done?
On the local machine, generate a "identity" and "identity.pub" file using
ssh-keygen. (You don't need to do this if you already have it.) Put the
contents of "identity.pub" into the remote machine's ~/.ssh/authorized_hosts
file.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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