From http://www.cs.utah.edu/~bigler/code/sshkeys.html

• Generate your key pair (do no enter password when prompted)
cd ~/.ssh ssh-keygen -t rsa

1 2	cd ~/.ssh ssh-keygen -t rsa

• Copy public key to remote server
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh user@remote.machine.com 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys' # If you need to make a .ssh directory on the remote machine cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh user@remote.machine.com 'mkdir .ssh; cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys'

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cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh user@remote.machine.com 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys'   # If you need to make a .ssh directory on the remote machine cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh user@remote.machine.com 'mkdir .ssh; cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys'