You can login to a remote Linux server without entering password in 3 simple steps using ssky-keygen and ssh-copy-id as explained in this article. ssh-keygen creates the public and private keys. ssh-copy-id copies the local-host’s public key to the remote-host’s authorized_keys file. ssh-copy-id also assigns proper permission to the remote-host’s home, ~/.ssh, and ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. This [...]
scp no password
In our previous articles, we discussed how to setup ssh key based authentication to perform ssh and scp without password under the following three scenarios: OpenSSH to OpenSSH OpenSSH to SSH2 SSH2 to SSH2 In this article, I’ll explain how to perform ssh and scp from SSH2 (local-host) to OpenSSH (remote-host) with no password. 1. [...]
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