webfaction ssh

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The procedure for setting up automatic private/public key login on our servers is as follows:

- On your own machine, go to $HOME/.ssh and type: ssh-keygen -t dsa

- When prompted for it, leave the default location for the file and let the passphrase empty

- Copy the content of the "id_dsa.pub" file that just got created into the $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys and authorized_keys2 on our machine.

- Set the following permissions:
    chmod 644 $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys*
    chmod 700 $HOME/.ssh
    chmod 750 $HOME/

That's it, you shouldn't get prompted for your password anymore