Good little HowTo. Just a few notes. On Thursday 03 April 2003 7:41 am, Jay Kline wrote: > On the account you are trying to ssh from, do this: > > ssh-keygen -t rsa > > When it prompts for a password, just hit enter. > That creates two files in your .ssh directory: id_rsa and id_rsa.pub. Copy > (securely) the id_rsa.pub to the remote machine you are trying to log into. The id_rsa.pub is the public key. You should be able to give to everyone and their grandmother. > In the account's .ssh directory, add id_rsa.pub to the end of the > authorized_keys file. (cat id_rsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys) I dont know The account on the computer you want to connect to. > if ssh requres that file have permissions 600, but its not a bad idea to do > that anyway. Now, the next time you ssh to that account from the other > box, it should not prompt for a password (scp will do the same). > > Jay > > On Thursday 03 April 2003 12:35 am, Ming wrote: > > Ok been battling with this off and on but can some one point me to some > > good docs that show me how to get ssh setup so it uses publickeys? > > Basically I am trying to use scp -qb in a script to get a particular > > file from the machine, but I keep getting permission denied. Sorry don't > > have a scp -v to include right now, I think I just broke ssh on the > > machine and its 12:30am....good thing no one else uses it or else I > > would have to go fix it now. Any thoughts or pointers would be nice. > > Thanks. > > > > > > Jason > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Bret Baptist Systems and Technical Support Specialist bbaptist at iexposure.com Internet Exposure, Inc. http://www.iexposure.com (612)676-1946 x17 Web Development-Web Marketing-ISP Services ------------------------------------------ Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list