Automating Passwordless Access

Assuming you have generated rsa keys (ssh-keygen) and assuming that ssh-copy-id is NOT working for you...

Here's the command:

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh -p 22 <login>@<dest> "cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys";

Where <login> is your username and <dest> is the server to which you're sending the public key.

OR, if you do this often, create passwordless.sh:
#!/bin/bash<br /> for i in $2;<br /> do<br /> echo "sending file to $i";<br /> cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh -p 22 $1@$i "cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys";<br /> done;

To run it:

chmod +x passwordless.sh
./passwordless.sh <login> <dest>