Contents
Setup Source Machine
* Login the source machine and cd to home directory
* Make a directory named .ssh if it does not exist already
* Create RSA key
* Copy public key to destination machine. You can use scp or copy and paste.
mkdir ~/.ssh chmod 700 ~/.ssh cd ~/.ssh ssh-keygen -t rsa scp .ssh/id_rsa.pub myid@targetsvr:~/.ssh
Setup Target Machine
* Login the target machine and cd to home directory
* Make a directory named .ssh if it does not exist already
* Append text from id_rsa.pub to authorized_keys2
* Set file permission on authorized_keys2
mkdir ~/.ssh chmod 700 ~/.ssh cd ~/.ssh cat id_rsa.pub >> authorized_keys2 chmod 600 authorized_keys2
Test
* Back to source machine
* Test ssh without password:
ssh -l myid 10.10.1.10 scp myid@10.10.1.10:/tmp/*.zip /tmp