Passwordless SSH setup

[Will Trillich <will@serensoft.com>]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 12:42:38AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote:
> 	/usr/bin/rsync	\
> 		-vaz	\
> 		-e /usr/bin/ssh	\
> 		--delete	\
> 		/home/office/	\
> 		10.1.1.5:/home/shared/
> 
> this assumes passwordless ssh connections are already set up, of
> course. (ssh-agent, ssh-keygen, which see.)

okay, that was a bit terse...

for passwordless SSH-ing, try this (and feel free to augment or
correct if i overlook something)--

	localbox$ ssh-keygen -t dsa

after some q&a (just answer with blanks, for passwordless
connections) this creates a ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub file that you can
append to your remote systems' ~/.ssh/authorized_keys files:

	localbox$ scp ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub me@remotebox:~/.ssh/localboxKey
	localbox$ ssh me@remotebox
	<password>
	remotebox$ cd ~/.ssh
	remotebox$ cat localboxKey >> authorized_keys
	remotebox$ chmod 600 authorized_keys
	remotebox$ rm localboxKey
	remotebox$ logout
	localbox$

poof!

	localbox$ ssh me@remotebox
	<no password needed!>
	remotebox$ 

now you're all set for passwordless login!

-- 
I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0;
Linux boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown
 
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #18 from Will Trillich <will@serensoft.com>
:
How do you DISABLE A NETWORK SERVICE? There are several ways
network services are made available: for inetd items, modify
/etc/inetd.conf and then "/etc/init.d/inetd restart". For
independently-running daemons, try "/etc/init.d/<daemon> stop"
(or to permanently zap them, "apt-get --purge remove <daemon>").

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