bash Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for bash Users
bash Cookbook teaches shell scripting the way Unix masters practice the craft. It presents a variety of recipes and tricks for all levels of shell programmers so that anyone can become a proficient user of the most common Unix shell -- the bash shell -- and cygwin or other popular Unix emulation packages.
micmath on 11/06/07
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So you don't have to type the password everytime you log in to that remote ssh server. Don't enter a passphrase when prompted, just hit enter. This example is for Mac OS X but is likely to work on *nix plats too.
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There is also an easier way for doing the last step:
ssh-copy-id username@remoteserver
It will add your public key to the autorized keys list on the remote host.