Connect to SSH using keys instead of password

An RSA keypair will be created using the following commands. This will allow for connecting to a server from your machine without using a password.

The following commands need to be run from the client machine, not on the server.

ssh-keygen

Press enter on all questions.

warning

Saving SSH keys without a passphrase to encrypt them is bad practice.

Next we'll need to push the newly generated key to the server.

ssh-copy-id server-user-name@hostname

After logging in once more, you can close the connection and when you connect again, no password will be needed.