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Created May 26, 2025 20:28
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Simple one liner to generate an SSH key without a password in the default place with the comment as hostname then print out the public key for copy and paste.
HOSTNAME=`hostname` ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "$HOSTNAME" -f "$HOME/.ssh/id_rsa" -P "" && cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
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