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wiki:advanced:authentication:passwordless-ssh [2012/02/18 14:08]
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wiki:advanced:authentication:passwordless-ssh [2013/03/08 13:31]
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-====== Passwordless authentication using ssh-keys  ====== 
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-===== Linux client ===== 
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-You'll need to generate a SSH key via the ssh-keygen command. Please choose which key you want to generate (we recommend dsa): 
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-<code> 
-$ ssh-keygen -t rsa 
-</code> 
- 
-or 
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-<code> 
-$ ssh-keygen -t dsa 
-</code> 
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-This will create following files inside your $HOME/.ssh/ directory: 
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-<file> 
-~/.ssh/id_{rsa,dsa} 
-~/.ssh/id_{rsa,dsa}.pub 
-</file> 
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-You'll need to transfer the public part of the key to the wanted server. You can do this using the ssh-copy-id command:  
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-<code> 
-$ ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub user@remote-system 
-</code> 
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-or 
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-<code> 
-$ ssh-copy-id -i /.ssh/id_dsa.pub user@remote-system 
-</code> 
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-After the transfer you can add the path to the private part of the key to the session preferences inside x2goclient. x2goclient should now establish the connection without asking for a password by simply clicking on the session card view.  
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-===== Windows client ===== 
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-Start a command prompt and navigate to the x2goclient folder, in this example it is **C:\Program Files\x2goclient**. 
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-First we generate a DSA key pair (use an empty password phrase if you want SSO): 
-<code dos> 
-C:\Program Files\x2goclient>ssh-keygen.exe -t dsa 
-</code> 
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-:!: ssh-keygen.exe prints the path to the key file(s), you will need that in the next step. 
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-You'll need to transfer the public key file to the wanted server. You can do this using the scp.exe command with the path that ssh-keygen.exe printed (make sure you transfer the id_dsa**.pub** file): 
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-<code dos> 
-C:\Program Files\x2goclient>scp.exe /cygdrive/C/DOCUME~1/<username>/.x2go/.ssh/id_dsa.pub username@remoteserver: 
-</code> 
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-When the file has been transferred, log on to the remote server with ssh.exe: 
-<code dos> 
-C:\Program Files\x2goclient>ssh.exe username@remoteserver 
-</code> 
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-Go to your .ssh folder, add the contents of the public key file to your authorized_keys file and then remove the public key file: 
-<code bash> 
-cd ~/.ssh 
-cat ~/id_dsa.pub >> authorized_keys 
-rm ~/id_dsa.pub 
-</code> 
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-You can now add the path to the id_dsa file (the private part of the key) to the session preferences inside x2goclient. x2goclient should now establish the connection without asking for a password by simply clicking on the session card view.  
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-You can also create a desktop shortcut which starts the session with the client window hidden; in x2goclient select Session -> "Create session icon on desktop..." -> select session from the list and click the "Create session icon on desktop..."-button. 
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-:!: The path to x2goclient.exe in the shortcut may be wrong, edit the shortcut and remove "bin\" from the path and the working directory. 
  
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