Using SSH without a password

Use digital certificates. Much more secure than a password-less connection and OPENSSH comes with everything that you need to generate
and deploy the certs. Let me know if you want a HOWTO posted to the list, sounds like it would be fun just to set it up.

-I

"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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