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About two or three times a year I find myself in need of a background process that either needs to SSH or SCP into a remote machine . Since I do it so infrequently, I need to remind myself of the procedure each time so I've decided to lay it out here for anyone - but especially me - to reference.
This process will allow a user to access, via the SSH protocol, another server without being prompted for a password. This technique is tremendously useful if, for example, you want to run a cron job that creates a backup using rsync or one that simply needs to copy files from another server to be processed locally.
A couple of months ago I got a semi-panicked phone call from my mom. Seems she had allowed Windows Update to do its thing and now her Internet Explorer bookmarks, ahem Favorites, weren't there. I couldn't figure out what she was talking about until I remembered that IE7 had recently been unleashed upon the world. And the light bulb clicked on.
