OpenBSD Servers Support Tutorials

SSH Passwordless Logins on OpenBSD

Instructions for passwordless logins with SSH on OpenBSD

machinea$ ssh-keygen -t dsa
Generating public/private dsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/filecopier/.ssh/id_dsa): 
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /home/filecopier/.ssh/id_dsa.
Your public key has been saved in /home/filecopier/.ssh/id_dsa.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
5b:a6:53:b6:e3:31:e3:2d:0b:f6:72:c5:dd:97:69:f9 filecopier@machinea

Copy the id_dsa.pub to machineb and place and rename it to /home/filecopier/.ssh/authorized_keys

From machinea you can then login via `ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_dsa filecopier@machineb`