Bypass SSH login
Saturday, December 3, 2011 EST (Updated on: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 EST)
by: Eric Potvin
Tags:ubuntulinux
If you are using SSH a lot (either to connect from your development environment or production environment) you will be prompted to enter your password:
user@server.com's password:
This can be annoying when you connect to these servers over and over. Here's a quick tip that will allow you not to enter your password every time you login and keep your connection between your computer and your server secure.
On your computer
cd ~/.ssh
Then execute:
ssh-keygen -t dsa
For each question, simply press the enter key at every prompt. This will output something like (this may vary):
Generating public/private dsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/user/.ssh/id_dsa):
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /home/user/.ssh/id_dsa.
Your public key has been saved in /home/user/.ssh/id_dsa.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
ad:98:43:13:c9:ea:66:8e:d0:d9:66:59:d8:3a:f7:29
The key's randomart image is:
+--[ DSA 1024]----+
| |
| . . |
| + |
| + . . |
| o = S . |
| . + = + . |
|. o @ = . |
| . B oEo . |
| . . .o |
+-----------------+
This produces two files: id_dsa.pub (public key) and id_dsa (private key)
user@computer:~/.ssh$ ll
total 40
-rw------- 1 user user 668 2011-11-29 13:26 id_dsa
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 604 2011-11-29 13:26 id_dsa.pub
On your server
Edit the file ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. Note: the file might not be there
vi ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
Copy the content from the public key (id_dsa.pub) in the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and change the permissions:
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 700 ~/.ssh
Logout of your server, and login again! the password is now gone!
If by any bad luck you are getting this error:
Agent admitted failure to sign using the key.
or
Agent admitted failure to sign using the key.
Simply, run:
ssh-add
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