Re: Need a tutorial

[Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

On Wednesday 21 September 2016 10:23:09 Greg Wooledge wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:18:55AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Where can I get a tut on doing the ssh keyfile login, and where can
> > I find a tutorial that is essentialy what Dr. Klepp had me do about
> > a year back that made these 3 commands in my rc.local file Just
> > Work:
> >
> > su gene -c "sshfs gene@shop:/ /sshnet/shop"
> > su gene -c "sshfs gene@lathe:/ /sshnet/lathe"
> > su gene -c "sshfs gene@GO704:/ /sshnet/GO704"
>
> You need to set up key authentication between your local account (as
> client) and the remote server.  Usually this is done by having an ssh
> keypair (generating one if you don't already have one), then sending
> the public key (NOT the private key) to the remote machine, and
> appending it to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file of the target account.
>
> man ssh-keygen
> http://mywiki.wooledge.org/SshKeys

I knew there was something about generating keys, but not the sticky 
details.

Thanks.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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