Lloyd Leung » ssh putty password passwordless security login http://www.lloydleung.com Thoughts, ramblings, projects. Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:17:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 putty passwordless login http://www.lloydleung.com/2008/05/29/putty-passwordless-login/ http://www.lloydleung.com/2008/05/29/putty-passwordless-login/#comments Fri, 30 May 2008 00:02:43 +0000 Lloyd Leung http://www.lloydleung.com/?p=152 If you found this, you know what you’re looking for

  1. goto http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
  2. download puttyGen
  3. run it, with ssh-2 RSA
  4. click generate
  5. leave key passphrase blank.
  6. yeah save both the private and public keys for future use.
  7. at the top of the app, there’s a “OpenSSH authorized_keys” text window, copy and paste the information into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys as one line.  (You’ll need to shell into the box first).

Start putty

  1. enter the ip/host address
  2. enter a session name.
  3. in the menu tree goto: connection->data enter your auto-login name
  4. in the menu tree goto: connection->ssh->auth click browse and select the private key you saved from the above section.
  5. in the menu tree goto: session click save
  6. test, by clicking open.

Enjoy.

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