SSH Passwordless Login

Introduction

In this article, we will try to setup password-less login using ssh keys to connect to remote Linux servers without entering a password.

open your preferred terminal and follow the steps:

Generate Authentication Keys on local machine

ssh-keygen -t rsa

Create .ssh Directory on remote machine

ssh <user>@<remote-ip-adress> mkdir -p .ssh

Upload Generated Public Keys to remote machine

cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh <user>@<remote-ip-adress> 'cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys'

Login to remote machine

ssh <user>@<remote-ip-adress>