I administer a RHEL server, which until recently was running RHEL 5.something. I had public keys set up so I could connect to this server from my desktop without a password (using keychain to manage ...

The command will move through a series of prompts. First, it will ask where you want to save the keys. Unless you are an expert, accept the default. This will create an “id_rsa” and an “id_rsa.pub” ...

Using a set of public/private keys to allow you to log into a remote Linux system or run commands using ssh without a password can be very convenient, but setup is just tad tricky. Here's how and a ...