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Old 09-29-2011
How helpful are ssh keys?
Hi frnz,

I work in an environment, where I need to login to multiple UNIX sessions(Always types my password when prompted for)

I heard of ssh keys which provides us a valid authentication and that avoids us typing the password.

Now I want to generate the ssh keys and use in my environment. can you please let me know, to what extent I can implement this and also please let me know the detailed procedure of generating the ssh keys.

If this is not a very good option, let me know an other alternative.

I'm much interested in this.

Thank you.
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Old 09-29-2011
Please search the forums for this question, and come back with any specific problems you encounter. Suggested search terms would be "ssh authentication", "public keys"
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Old 09-30-2011
ssh keys are indeed useful and can be used in many ways. I use a key with a password on it, and use ssh-agent to cache the password. Type the password in once when I login in the morning and don't need to anytime thereafter. At the end of the day I kill the agent and it stops remembering. Passwordless to all my servers but nobody can get in just by stealing the key.
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