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You want to use Linux and OpenSSH to automize your tasks. Therefore you need an automatic login from host A / user a to Host B / user b. You don't want to enter any passwords, because you want to call ssh from a within a shell script.
 
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How to do it
 
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First log in on A as user a and generate a pair of authentication keys. Do not enter a passphrase:
 
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a@A:~> ssh-keygen -t rsa
 
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Generating public/private rsa key pair.
 
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Enter file in which to save the key (/home/a/.ssh/id_rsa):
 
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Created directory '/home/a/.ssh'.
 
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Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
 
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Enter same passphrase again:
 
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Your identification has been saved in /home/a/.ssh/id_rsa.
 
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Your public key has been saved in /home/a/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
 
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The key fingerprint is:
 
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3e:4f:05:79:3a:9f:96:7c:3b:ad:e9:58:37:bc:37:e4 a@A
 
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Now use ssh to create a directory ~/.ssh as user b on B. (The directory may already exist, which is fine):
 
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a@A:~> ssh b@B mkdir -p .ssh
 
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b@B's password:
 
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Finally append a's new public key to b@B:.ssh/authorized_keys and enter b's password one last time:
 
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a@A:~> cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh b@B 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys'
 
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b@B's password:
 
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From now on you can log into B as b from A as a without password:
 
 
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Revision as of 19:06, 27 August 2020

SSH without password