passwordless ssh question

philosophia · 10-16-2007, 07:49 AM

I used this tutorial to do passwordless ssh connections between my macbook and my linux desktop

http://blogs.translucentcode.org/mic...es/000230.html

One problem I have -
Every time I reboot and start up a terminal, I have to
rm ~/.ssh-agent.sh
ssh-agent > ~/.ssh-agent.sh
source .ssh-agent.sh
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_dsa
Is there any way I can get this to work without having to delete, recreate and source the .ssh-agent.sh file every time I reboot?

dstar101 · 10-16-2007, 08:03 AM

yes you can do this through bash programming or write some python script and add it in start up

sleepyEDB · 10-16-2007, 09:24 AM

I've set up passwordless ssh using the instructions below, and don't have to do anything after a reboot.

Managing ssh for Scripts and cron jobs

They go into a bit more detail than is necessary for just passwordless ssh, but the basic operations are:

Create passwordless key on local box
Copy key to remote box and add it to the /.ssh/authorized_keys file
Create passwordless key on remote box
Copy key to local box and add it to the /.ssh/authorized_keys file
Make sure permissions on the /.ssh/ folder and it's contents are set to 644

Hope that helps,

sleepy

philosophia · 10-16-2007, 09:46 AM

thanks guys, it's working

sleepyEDB · 10-16-2007, 10:26 AM

Cool, I'm glad to hear it.

sleepy