Best way to copy files to server via UNIX?

Ah, I gotcha now! Sorry to keep bothering you with all of this but I am learning so much from you! This is really great. I appreciate it very very much! 😉

I'll test this out today!

I'm not sure what is going on now. I created a script to create all of the keys. That was easy enough to do.

Then I generated a setup on a client machine to test.

ssh-keygen -t dsa -f ~/.ssh/id_dsa - N ""

And on the same test client copied over a set of the keys I created replacing the default keys.

Still on the same client I ran this to copy the key to the server's auth keys:

cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh admin@server 'cat - >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys'

I know I can cat all of the public keys to the server from the machine I ran the batch script. I am just testing one to see if it works.

Now when I intially ssh into the server from the same client it asks to add the server to the known_hosts and I type yes. And then I have to login with the server's admin pass for the intial connection.

Then I exit.

Then I ssh in again to the server and it is still prompting for a password!?

I thought this was working yesterday, I guess not. I'm not sure what I am doing wrong now.

This seems like an awful lot of work, especially with users coming and going. I'm going to have to update the servers auth_keys daily.

Thanks,

Galen

Not sure what I was doing wrong but I repeated the process and it is working now!