SSHKeychain can make the life easier by supplying the local certificates automatically to the remote server. If everything is working fine, you never need to enter a password again; the SSHKeychain itself is protected by the login password of OSX.
First you have to do:
- open Terminal and enter “ssh-keygen -t dsa”
- save the stuff inside USERDIR/.ssh/
- upload the file with the following script
- go into the SSHKeychain configuration and check “global configuration”
- log off and on
- open ssh to the specific server again
- et voila!
#!/bin/sh
KEY=”$HOME/.ssh/id_rsa.pub”
if [ ! -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ];then
echo “private key not found at $KEY”
echo “* please create it with “ssh-keygen -t dsa” *”
echo “* to login to the remote host without a password, don’t give the key you create with ssh-keygen a password! *”
exit
fi
if [ -z $1 ];then
echo “Please specify user@host.tld as the first switch to this script”
exit
fi
PORT=”22″
if [ $2 ];then
PORT=”$2″
fi
echo “Putting your key on $1 via port $PORT. “
KEYCODE=`cat $KEY`
ssh -p $PORT -q $1 “mkdir ~/.ssh 2>/dev/null; chmod 700 ~/.ssh; echo “$KEYCODE” >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys; chmod 644 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys”
echo “done!”
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