passwordless-ssh.md

How To Setup SSH and Passwordless Authentication

Complete guide can be found at SSH-Academy

Generate an SSH Key

1. From your terminal on the APT Runner, run ssh-keygen -t rsa
2. Choose the location where you want this key to be stored
   • The default location is $HOME/.ssh/key-name
   • This is generally sufficient
3. Choose the name of your key
   • By default the key will be named id_rsa
   • You can name the key whatever you like
4. Skip adding a passphrase and key will be created

Add Passwordless SSH

1. Copy the public key created on the APT Runner system with ssh-copy-id -i $HOME/.ssh/key-name user@domain
2. run ssh user@domain to test configuration.