June 4, 2012
Connecting through SSH without password
To connect through SSH to a web-server without entering a password, one has to perform the following steps:
1. Run the command ssh-keygen
$ ssh-keygen
Save the key in the default location or any location you desire and provide the passphrase, which has to be atleast 4 letters long. The default location for the key is:
/home/<user>/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
Now to connect to SSH with this key, we will have to run the following command:
$ ssh-copy-id -i /home/<user>/.ssh/id_rsa.pub server
Note : Replace <user> with your username or home folder.