Cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password
Brian Dessent
brian@dessent.net
Sun Oct 10 17:22:00 GMT 2004
gmiller@cfl.rr.com wrote:
>
> I wanted to add a little bit to the thread in regards to setup of ssh. To generate the public and pro\ivate key pairs needed to login with out a password prompt requires the use of the "ssh-keygen" utility. From your home directory using the following sequence to generate a key pair.
Better to just run "ssh-user-config" which does this for you, among
other things. If there are deficiencies in that script (or
ssh-host-config) then they should be fixed, rather then having users
circumvent the scripts and "wing it".
Brian
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