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SSH/SCP Without Being Prompted for a Password posted on: 3/13/07
Description:
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.
