Setup Password-less SSH Login

I hate having to login to remote machines. Since SSH can be configured with public/private keys, I think it makes sense to use them. Here is a very simple way to get my public key onto the remote server

1. Create remote user.
   • If you are going to log in with a different user, then you’ll need to create a local account.
   • This command will prompt you for details about the new user. Just follow the prompts.
   • Replace remote-user with the name of the user you will use to connect to the remote machine.

      user@local:~$ sudo adduser remote-user
     

2. Generate an SSH key for the new remote user.
   • This setups a passwordless key.

      user@local:~$ su - remoteuser remoteuser@local:~$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -P ""
     

3. Copy public key to remote machine.

    remoteuser@local:~$ ssh-copy-id -i $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa.pub remoteuser@remotemachine