How do I create an identity file for scp??
Jonathon McKitrick
jcm at FreeBSD-uk.eu.org
Tue Jul 15 14:36:55 PDT 2003
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 03:27:36PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote:
: Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
: [ ... ]
: >How do I create the identity file that goes with the -i option so that I do
: >not have to enter my password each time?
: >
: >NOTE: Please CC me, as I am not currently subscribed. Thanks.
:
: Use ssh-keygen to generate an RSA or DSA keypair without using a password,
: and copy identity.pub, id_dsa.pub, or whatever to .ssh/authorized_keys on
: the remote host (the system being logged into).
That worked perfectly. Thanks!
Am I correct that for each box I want to log in from, I do the same thing,
and just append each key to authorized_keys?
jm
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