UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello Everybody,

Could anyone please tell me how to get ssh to work without asking for passwords? (i want to do a ssh <hostname> without getting a request for a password but getting connected straight away)

I have attempted the following but to no avail ...

I tried to generate a SSH key by running the 'ssh-keygen -t rsa1' command and then stored the results of the public key file generated to another file called 'authorized_keys' (also in ~/.ssh). But then when trying to connect via ssh between the systems I have the same problem...it requests for a password.

I have one home directory, eg /home/user1, that is mounted to both the systems that i want to ssh between. This /home directory resides on a separate third server.

Your help would be much appreciated.

Many thanks

rk

See this post - make sure your .ssh directory is 700.

Well it is now working.
Think it was a permissions issue.

Many thanks for your help

rk

Can some please explain from the start how I can use ssh server without giving password?

I haven't looked yet at the tutorials on this site, but there are thousands of how-tos on ssh on the web. Google is your friend.

Even better, here is the site with instructions.
You need to fingerprint the connection with an initial login after you create the keys, then you can use the connection in a script without the password

http://www.openssh.org/manual.html