SSH KEY Storing

[cristalmolix]

Can someone briefly outline the process of storing an SSH key on your local machine so you dont have to type a password

[trq]

You generate a key on the local machine.

 

ssh-keygen -t rsa

 

if you don't set a password in the prompts, it won't use one.

 

Then copy your public key to the remote server.

 

ssh-copy-id remoteserver.com

[cristalmolix]

thanks very much but i have a windows setup of cyghwin openssh

 

my distro contains ssh-keygen -t rsa

 

but does not have ssh-copy-id

 

any ideas ?

[tomfmason]

you can just scp it over

 

cat your_key | ssh user@host 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys'

 

 

 

 

[cristalmolix]

thanks