SSH

Template:oldfaq Here you'll find all you need to know about Secure Shell (SSH) and its usage as required in Peyton Hall

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I've found a decent introduction to SSH public key authentication which is available here: http://sial.org/howto/openssh/publickey-auth/

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• Why SSH?
• Which SSH?
• Where to get SSH
• No SSH available?

• SSH Setup Script

• Creating a SSHv1 key
• Creating a SSHv2 Key
• Converting a Key
• Installing your Keys
• Installing Keys to (or from) remote hosts
• Using SSH
• ssh-agent Usage, or "Passwordless logins"
• Using scp and sftp
• More information on SSH
• Advanced: Tunneling connections through SSH
• SSH Tips and Tricks
• "Host Identification Changed" error message
• Failed Connections
• BadAtom Error
• Changing your key's passphrase
• Setting up Putty in Windows
• *IMPORTANT SSH Login Policies*
• SSH Agent Forwarding
• Setting up a ssh agent in Windows

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Remember that once you setup keys, and have your ssh-agent running happily when you login, that you will need to use 'ssh-add' to add your keys to the running agent or else you will be asked for the passphrase every time! You only need to do this once per agent, so if you think they might be there use 'ssh-add -l' to list the keys. If you want to delete keys from the running agent, for example at the end of the work day, use 'ssh-add -D' to remove them.