ssh/scp used keyless....more secure

[Bruce Marshall]

On Saturday 27 August 2005 11:03 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> If you already do have an ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the server for your
> user, then you need to append your ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub to the end of
> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. ?So scp ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub to the server, and
> then this should do the trick:
> cat id_dsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
>
> At this point, you're done, and you should be able to ssh/scp to that
> server without passwords.


Or more easily, in either case,   use from the client side:

ssh-copy-id  -i  ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub  <user>@<server>

You'll be asked for the <user> password on the server and the copy will 
complete.   

Done.