Posts Tagged ‘command line’

Easy Passwordless Shell Logins

Summery
In brief if you have new ssh client and server applications on 2 clean systems, you should be able to authenticate yourself using these 2 commands.

ssh-keygen
ssh-copy-id user@server

Once you are authenticated you can hop around computers more easily and run unattended tasks like backups without passing passwords around.
Background
We just got a few more servers at work [...]