Sunday, August 29, 2010

How to login without password from One linux server to other

For E.g. want to ssh from linux server-A to the other linux server-B without password follow the below steps.

From the source linux server(linux server-A)

Step1: Login to the server and the the command  "ssh-keygen"

Generating public/private rsa key pair.

Step2:  Enter the path/location where you want to save the sshkey(you can give any name for saving the sshkey)

Enter file in which to save the key (/root/.ssh/id_rsa): /root/.ssh/sshkey
Press enter key

Step3: You will get "Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):" in terminal
Press enter key

Step4: You will get "Enter same passphrase again: " in terminal
Press enter key

Step5: You will get "Your identification has been saved in /root/.ssh/sshkey." in terminal
Your public key has been saved in /root/.ssh/sshkey.pub

The key fingerprint is:
39:3c:3c:68:ca:fb:fc:95:e6:e0:6b:d2:0e:b9:e6:21 root@linux-xwkz























Step6: Enter this command in terminal "vi /root/.ssh/keyname.pub"







Copy the key






 
Step7 : run the below command to add copied key to the Destination server(linux server-B]
vi /root/.ssh/authorized_keys








paste the key in to "authorized_keys" file






Step8: restart sshd service.
service sshd restart





 


Now you will able to ssh without password from "linux server-A" to "linux server-B"


    

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