passwordless SSH

[Brett Johnson]

On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 01:28 +0100, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote:
> $ ssh <remote_machine>
> Enter passphrase for key '/home/my_id/.ssh/id_rsa':
> 
> 
> How do I avoid keep typing the passphrase whenever I do ssh?

This is what ssh-agent is for.  Type "ssh-add" after you start up your X
session to load your key into ssh-agent.  Then, as long as that X
session remains live, you'll be able to ssh/scp/rsync/etc... without
typing your passphrase.

-- 
Brett Johnson <brett at hp.com>