On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 17:31 -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 03:44:13PM -0400, linux starved wrote: > > information. The following is basically what I want the script to do, > > but I heard scp will not work with authentication. I also read about > > rsync and tried to get the following one liner to work on the source > > server > > To get scp working without prompting you for a password, do > as follows: > > (Supposing that you're scp'ing files from machine A to > machine B, and that your username is the same on both A and > B.) > > 1) run 'ssh-keygen -t dsa' on machine A. This will generate > an SSH key of the appropriate type. It will ask you if you > want a passphrase; press enter to use a blank passphrase. > Accept any other defaults presented to you. > > 2) You will now have a directory ~/.ssh . In there will be > two files (at least): id_dsa and id_dsa.pub. The latter is a > public key, the former a private key. > > 3) Copy id_dsa.pub to machine B. To do so, type > > scp ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub [machine B's name]: I think using: $ ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub user@machine is the "proper" way of doing this. It ensures that the file ends up on the remote machine with proper permissions set, and adds the appropriate entry in the remote ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. -davidc -- gpg-key: http://www.zettazebra.com/files/key.gpg
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