Creating Passwordless SSH Keys
May 14, 2023 —
Gregg Szumowski
Create the key. Note those are two single quotes after the -N (for a blank passwd)
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -N ''
Copy it to the target server
$ cat .ssh/idrsa.pub | ssh [email protected] 'cat >> .ssh/authorizedkeys'
Test it
$ ssh [email protected]