Re: Passwordless login with SSH

[Keith Morse <kgmorse mpcu com>]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 Rebecca R Hepper seagate com wrote:

[much snippage}

> Does anyone have any thoughts on what I have done wrong or how I can get
> around having to input a pasword?


As someone else alluded to in a prior message, your local
.ssh/identity.pub (.ssh/id_dsa.pub for dsa which you should be using if at
all possible) needs to be pushed to the .ssh/authorized_keys of the remote
host (.ssh/authorized_key2 for dsa).  Use ssh-agent and ssh-add to load
the key in memory and passphrase authenication will take place
automagically.  Another alternative is to use .shosts.  Works much like
.rhosts.