[SWLUG] using ssh to talk to a server?

[Justin Mitchell]

On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 11:44 +0100, Mark Summerfield wrote:
> What I'd really like it to be able to make both machines "trust" each
> other, but without that trust extending past the router that they are
> connected by (and that is connected to the Internet).
> 
> Could I create a ~/.ssh/ssh_config file or some such on each machine to
> do that?

you can make an account on one machine be able to login to the other
without a password.

on the 'from' machine first run ssh-keygen, just hit enter to its
questions, and dont set a password otherwise youve just moved the
problem.

this will create ~/.ssh/id_rsa and id_rsa.pub

copy the contents of id_rsa.pub from the local machine and add it to the
end of ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the target machine. create the file if
you have to.

now whenever you ssh from an account that has the ~/.ssh/id_rsa file,
into an account that has the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file, it wont ask
for a password.

copy those files to any other accounts/machines that you need this to
work for.