Public Key Authentication for SSH Made Easy

Posted by suvi under Desktop, Security, Tricks

Instead of logging in to SSH using a traditional password, you can also authenticate yourself without a password using a technique called public key authentication. This has more advantages than you would expect: as well as being convenient and more secure, you could use it to allow applications on your computer to access a remote system without knowing anything about the authentication, and mount SSH filesystems without being prompted.

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