Try "man ssh" and look in the section on protocol
version 2 about $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys. This
is passwordless. Requires having a public key
pair, with the private half on your client, and
the public half on the server.

If you do this, your server will allow access
to anyone who can get the private half from
your client machine - so make sure your client
box doesn't get compromised.

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Simper, Brian D wrote:

> Is it possible to set up a Linux machine to use scp without using a
> password?  I have a server that needs to provide files for a set of very
> secure systems and they only have ssh installed on them (no ftp, no telnet,
> no rlogin clients or servers).  For convenience of the users, can a
> password-less scp be set up?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian
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