Hi lugies, I work on atleast 20 to 40 machines daily. My authentication is through LDAP. My laptop i use is windows xp and i use putty to login. I have a desktop also which is rhel 5.4 32 bit. Now this 20 to 40 machiines is not entirly same machine of this atleast 15 of them will be a new machine in some dc around the globe. i want to do Private -Public key login , instead of thorugh typing the password everytime. because file based authentication is more secure and easy. This private key file should not be passwordless. i want to do passphrase protected. As any body with access to my desktop or laptop can missue my account to wreck havoc in DC. Though it is highly unlikely that is possible. But i dont want to take chances. Now i want to do automatic ssh into these machines. I tried keychain , which is says it can do that. I dont mind keying in the passphrase couple of times a day of work. But keychain requires i copy the public key file into every machine i login into and every machine i login. If there any other way to do passwordless ssh without needing manually copy the pub key into each machine. Since the central ldap server already has all the machine details, is it possible to do it from the central server. I dont have control over the central ldap server, but i can talk to the person holding the central server to do if i have substantial information. Also how do i enable automatic login from windows to linux through putty.I mean from from my laptop to desktop. here copying the keys is ok. Since it is a one time effort. My point is how to generate the keys in windows. Also if i use the same key pair in linux as well as windows that would spare some effort in windows.
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