Question

Im writing a shell script to use the scp command (ssh) to transfer a file across to a computer. This obviously is password protected is there a way on either end to either…disable the password or to auto complete the password for the customer?

This out of pure convience and I have no idea if it is possible (im fairly new to linux), any help or pointers would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You can generate a pair of RSA/DSA keys (public and private). In your terminal:

$ ssh-keygen

It will generate a pair of files:

• Private key: .ssh/id_dsa
• Public key: .ssh/id_dsa.pub

Then, if you have access to remote host, you can add your public key to .ssh/authorized_keys file. In your remote host, copy the public key and use the following command:

cat id_dsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys