Blog dot Melimato dot Com » scp http://blog.melimato.com Those things we do Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:58:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc How to exchange ssh keys for passwordless login http://blog.melimato.com/how-to-exchange-ssh-keys-for-passwordless-login/ http://blog.melimato.com/how-to-exchange-ssh-keys-for-passwordless-login/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:55:56 +0000 pablo http://www.melimato.com/blog/?p=3 As I’m always using ssh, copying or rsyncing files between all my servers I find it very annoying to always have to type in my login password. To avoid that, I exchanged my ssh keys so that all the authentication is done through those keys. To achieve that simply:

On the machine you want to have access from:

1. Generate a new key if you don’t already have one:

$ ssh-keygen

2. Copy the key accross to the other server:

$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh user@target_machine cat - ">>" ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Now when you want to ssh or scp or rsync user@target_machine you won’t need to use a password any more!

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