The oreilly book on the subject is very helpful. But the quick and dirty is this: on the remote machine, make sure the users home directory contains the .ssh dir on the local macine do this: user at local $ ssh-keygen -t rsa #you can optionally specify other key types if you wish Generating public/private rsa key pair Enter file in which to save the key (/home/user/.ssh/id_rsa): #default ok Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): #just hit enter Enter the same passphrase again: #hit enter again The key fingerprint is: blah blah blah...... user at local $ cat /home/user/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh remote-machine 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys' user at remote-machine's password: #enter the password user at local $ ssh remote-machine user at remote-machine $ #No password this time! If that dosnt work, check the permissions of the authorized_keys file (should be 600 or rw-------). Jay On Thursday 12 June 2003 03:46 pm, Raymond Norton wrote: > I am looking for docs on this. Any good links for a newbie? > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Justin Kremer" <kremer at ringworld.org> > To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 3:40 PM > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] scp > > > How about using a key instead of a password? > > > > On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Raymond Norton wrote: > > > I want to use scp to transfer a number of log files from different > > > hosts > > to > > > > my server on a daily basis . So far, the docs I have found only give > > > examples of usernames from the command line. I need to do the username > > and > > > > password so I can schedule a script to run each night. Is there a way > > > to > > do > > > > this? > > > > > > > > > Raymond > > > ------------- > > > > > > Defeat is a matter of choice. > > > > > > --God > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > > > > ------------- > > Justin Kremer <kremer at ringworld.org> > > > > "One likes to believe in the freedom of music, > > But glittering prizes and endless compromises > > Shatter the illusion of integrity." > > - Rush "The Spirit of Radio" (1980) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- Jay Kline http://www.slushpupie.com _______________________________________________ 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