Because I don’t care too much about what happens to my test servers, I’ve been setting up password-less SSH logins. Using a Linux system to login is trivial, because it’s a simple matter of doing
ssh-keygen
on the system that will be connecting to the remote server, and just hitting enter until the key is generated.
After that, it’s a simple
scp id_rsa.pub > host:/home/kyl191/.ssh
followed by
cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys2
once you login to the remote server.
For Windows, it works with putty, but you have to use puttygen as well as convert the key it generates into a different form, so it’s more involved. But still works. ^^
Also, add the line echo “key_contents” > /home/$user/.ssh/authorized_keys2 to the kickstart file to automatically set every future installed system up to work with your password-less login.