[lug] OpenSSH & RSAAuthentication

[dan radom]

http://radom.org/lost+found/ssh-hostkey_authentication.txt

the above URL details it nicely.  in short you ssh-keygen and copy of the contents of ~/.ssh/identity.pub to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the target host.  then run ssh-agent zsh (for example) then ssh-add to add your keys to the running agent.

dan

* Shannon Johnston (nunar at nunar.com) wrote:
> HI All,
> I need to use RSA keys to authenticate SSH sessions without prompting for
> a password. I haven't done this before. Could anybody clue me in or point
> me to some good documentation on how to accomplish this??
> 
> I'm using OpenSSH 3.0.1p1
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Shannon Johnston
> nunar at nunar.com
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