No More SSH Password
This is intended for Linux, Unix, OS X users who use SSH to connect to a remote server and tire of repeatedly entering their password. (This works really well for subversion users for instance.) In this short post we’ll create a public key and add this key to your server’s list of good guys. Just be careful, anyone who could access your ~/.ssh directory could copy this file and use it to do the same. Be smart!
From your home directory enter the following. When prompted for input just hit enter.
ssh-keygen -t dsa
chmod 600 .ssh/id_dsa
Upload the id_dsa.pub file that now resides in ~/.ssh to your server, log into your ssh account, and enter:
cat /home/MYUSER/id_dsa.pub >> /home/MYUSER/.ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 700 /home/MYUSER/.ssh
