On Friday 07 Nov 2003 23:56, Jayson Garrell wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 15:47, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> > I've seen a thread or 2 here before about this, but I can't seem to
> > find them. I use ssh to login to a few different hosts on a regular
> > basis. I want to set it up so I don't have to enter my password.
> > How do I do this?
>
> On each host, as what ever user you are going to be using,  do the
> following.
>
> 1) ssh-keygen -t rsa
>  (hit enter when asked for a password)
>
> Now add the content of your ~/.ssh/id_rsa file to the
> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on each host you are logging into. If the
> authorized_keys file is not there create it.
>
> Now when you go to logon to those hosts you will not be asked for a
> password.
>
That works here for all users except root.  root is always prompted for 
password.

Peter
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