On 17/08/07, Dave Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Key Based Authentication: > > # On local machine upload the key (If you already have one) > $ scp ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ > > # ssh back to dreamhost > $ mkdir .ssh > $ cat id_dsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys # append your key >
Instead of this bit, you can use ssh-copy-id, which comes as part of ssh (I think), and does the whole process for you, including respecting any existing authorized_keys (I know you append here, but I've seen other examples that blat the whole file). Hwyl, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
