ssh/scp used keyless....more secure

[Net Llama!]

On 08/28/2005 07:28 AM, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> 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.   

ssh-copy-id doesn't seem to exist on any RH/FC systems.

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