SSH Login Without Passwords??

RooMeat · Unread post by **RooMeat** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:04 am

How do I set up Putty to log into SSH without typing passwords??
I have been told this is the best way.. but have never figured out how

Kalimari · Unread post by **Kalimari** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:06 pm

And you want to do this for added SSH security or just to save typing a password?

You really should use certificate authentication for SSH whenever possible and even then, still use a pass phrase to secure the key. For ultimate security disable direct root access and use su (requiring yet another pass phrase

) to gain root privileges.

Not sure there is a way to save the pass phrase for a key and have that auto log-on in puTTY, probably as its a bad security model! If you can cope with the typing of passwords, there are plenty of guides to achieving tighter SSH security and/or I can post a guide to doing it.

Unread post by **scott** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:39 pm

I did some video tutorials about it here:

http://www.atomicorp.com/Tutorials/

breun · Unread post by **breun** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:45 pm

Check the PuTTY documentation: http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.6 ... pter8.html

RooMeat · Unread post by **RooMeat** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:08 pm

Thanks guys.

And you want to do this for added SSH security or just to save typing a password?

For more security of course

No.. I'm not lazy.. just not confident with changes lol... but after just having a new hard drive installed and a re-image.. I want to make sure this system is as secure as it can be without choking it haha.

RooMeat · Unread post by **RooMeat** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:10 pm

Scott.. those tutorials.. Dec 31st 1969??

Highland · Unread post by **Highland** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:25 am

Probably a 0 in the time column that was added later. 0 in Unix time is Dec 31, 1969, 1 sec to midnight.

Unread post by **scott** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:09 am

And this is the sound of me with bigger problems to take care of.

Really, the time stamp guys? really?

RooMeat · Unread post by **RooMeat** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 3:43 pm

Scott I only commented on it in light hearted jest.. no.. they dont concern me one little bit lol

.. on another note though.. it does seem bigger issues or problems posted are usually ignored

Unread post by **scott** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:22 pm

I dunno, it depends on the scope. Sometimes I dont comment on something thats been answered before.