setting up ssh so that ssh'ing to a system doesn't require password

[Britton <fsblk@aurora.uaf.edu>]

I need to figure out how to set up ssh in such a way that ssh can be used
without the user needing to enter a password.  I apparently don't
understand the required format of the .shosts command to achieve this.  I
have also used ssh-keygen, placed my public key in the auhtorized_keys
file, started an agent (ssh-agent $SHELL) and used ssh-add to add my
identity to the authentication agent, but doing

ssh localhost

still requires me to enter a password.  If anyone has a valid .shosts file
I would greatly appreciate a snipping showing how they have it set up, or
a pointer to an example file (which I havn't been able to find in the
docs).

Britton Kerin
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