On the account you are trying to ssh from, do this: ssh-keygen -t rsa When it prompts for a password, just hit enter. That creates two files in your .ssh directory: id_rsa and id_rsa.pub. Copy (securely) the id_rsa.pub to the remote machine you are trying to log into. In the account's .ssh directory, add id_rsa.pub to the end of the authorized_keys file. (cat id_rsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys) I dont know if ssh requres that file have permissions 600, but its not a bad idea to do that anyway. Now, the next time you ssh to that account from the other box, it should not prompt for a password (scp will do the same). Jay On Thursday 03 April 2003 12:35 am, Ming wrote: > Ok been battling with this off and on but can some one point me to some > good docs that show me how to get ssh setup so it uses publickeys? > Basically I am trying to use scp -qb in a script to get a particular > file from the machine, but I keep getting permission denied. Sorry don't > have a scp -v to include right now, I think I just broke ssh on the > machine and its 12:30am....good thing no one else uses it or else I > would have to go fix it now. Any thoughts or pointers would be nice. > Thanks. > > > Jason > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Jay Kline http://www.slushpupie.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list