ssh/scp used keyless....more secure

[Net Llama!]

On 08/28/2005 01:30 PM, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Sunday 28 August 2005 11:14 am, Net Llama! wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> 
> SuSE 9.3 is using:    openssh-3.9p1-12

FC4 is using openssh-4.1p1-3.1

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