What is the best way of doing SCP from one box to the other without prompting for password?
There are two servers
Server A
10.152.2.10
/home/oracle/export/files.txt
Server B
10.152.2.11
/home/oracle/import/
If I want to transfer the files using scp from Server A to server B without being prompted to enter a password
[running this from Server A, /home/oracle/export/]
scp files.txt [email protected]:/home/oracle/import
This would prompt me for a password upon entering the command.
I understand that a keygen is required to be generated and copied to Server A
Thus[At Server A]: ssh-keygen -t rsa
This gives me two files stored in /home/oracle/.ssh:
id_rsa
id_rsa.pub
- Am I supposed to copy the two files (id_rsa,id_rsa.pub) over into Server B /home/oracle/.ssh ?
While doing some google search on this, some articles mentioned about appending/concatenating this to authorized_keys.
- Am I supposed to create this file on my own?
I seem to be confused on what is the right way to do this.
Btw, the two servers are running Suse Linux Enterprise Edition 9...
Please advice.