Comments on: Password free secure copy // SCP & SSH

By: Gare

Gare — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:08:54 +0000

Thanks for comment! Fixed. Glad article was helpful to someone - I know that it has helped me many times over.

By: Steve K

Steve K — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:35:05 +0000

In Step #6 above,
“Or, if you are logging in as a user, for example, clyde, it would be in /home/clyde/authorized_keys. ”

omits the .ssh directory. should be:

“Or, if you are logging in as a user, for example, clyde, it would be in /home/clyde/.ssh/authorized_keys. ”

Otherwise, thanks, very helpful.

By: Gare

Gare — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:36:07 +0000

Some Notes on File Permissions:
- the .ssh directory has to be 755 or more restrictive (that is, only the owner can write to it, not group) or SSH authentication will not work.
- the authorized_keys file in the .ssh directory must be 600 - rw by owner only.

By: info

info — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:43:30 +0000

1 interesting comment from original article:

Copy the ssh key with: Or even simpler with ssh-copy-id

ssh-keygen -t rsa
ssh-copy-id -i identity.pub root@bozo