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password-less_ssh_between_linux_machines [16.05.2014 14:25] – created Pascal Suterpassword-less_ssh_between_linux_machines [25.10.2023 11:11] (current) – [ssh auto login under Linux] Pascal Suter
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 ====== password-less ssh between linux machines ====== ====== password-less ssh between linux machines ======
-this was a pretty popular howto article i wrote a while ago to my old blog which is now offline. hence i copied it here in case anybody still needs it+this was a pretty popular howto article i wrote a while ago to my old blog which is now offline. hence i copied it here in case anybody still needs it.  
 + 
 +the [[ssh autologin with putty]] article is another of these old posts i've rescued
  
 ====== ssh auto login under Linux ====== ====== ssh auto login under Linux ======
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   scp .ssh/id_rsa.pub username@server:~/   scp .ssh/id_rsa.pub username@server:~/
  
-now connect to the server through ssh and add the contents of the copied file to your ''~/.ssh/authorized_keys2''+now connect to the server through ssh and add the contents of the copied file to your ''~/.ssh/authorized_keys''
 if this is the first time you do that, then you have to create both, the directory and the file. if this is the first time you do that, then you have to create both, the directory and the file.
  
   ssh username@server   ssh username@server
-  cat id_rsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys2+  cat id_rsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys
   exit   exit
  
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   ssh username@server    ssh username@server 
  
-without a password prompt+without a password prompt. if it does not work i occasionally had to use the filename ''authorized_keys2'' instead of the one above, so maybe try adding that number on the end of the file name. other than that it should work like that. I've done it on many different distributions for quite some time now and it always worked this way. 
  
 more detailed infos in german can be found here: more detailed infos in german can be found here:
 http://www.kriegisch.at/~adi/docs/unix/ssh_autologin.html http://www.kriegisch.at/~adi/docs/unix/ssh_autologin.html
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