Password-less SSH Login
May 8, 2006 | 14 Comments
On occasion I have the need to establish trust relationships between Unix boxes so that I can script file transfers. In short, here’s how you leverage SSH to do that. Using the example of trying to connect from server ‘ender’ to get a file on ‘bean’ follow this example:
- Connect to ender
- type:
ssh-keygen -t rsa- default directory for keyfiles will be ~/.ssh/
- if you do not want to be prompted, leave passphrase blank
- copy the contents of .ssh/id_rsa.pub (there should only be one line)
- place this line on bean, in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
- that’s it, you should now be able to ssh/sftp/scp from ender to bean without being prompted for a password!
For further detail and a more complete example check this site out.
Update: You must have "RSAAuthentication yes" in your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file. On many Linux installations this setting is commented out in a default install
Tags: authentication, keygen, linux, pass phrase, password, scp, sftp, solaris, ssh, system administration, unix