friendssh - Add RSA key authentication to ssh hosts.

SYNOPSIS:

$ friendssh [email protected]
Password:
$ ssh [email protected]
Welcome to your remote compute cluster!
> 

USAGE: friendssh [-h] [-f] [-t KEYTYPE] [-p PASSPHRASE] [USER@]HOST

ARGUMENTS: HOST Hostname or address of an ssh server. USER Username at the specified host.

OPTIONS: -t KEYTYPE Use a key type other than 'rsa'. -p PASSPHRASE Use a specified passphrase for any created key. -f Force copying of the public key and athentication. -h Print a help message.

DESCRIPTION: The friendssh program performs all the necessary steps in setting up RSA public/private key for your computer on a remote host. friendssh will generate an RSA key pair if you do not already have one at '~/.ssh/id_rsa' and '~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub'. It then copies your public key to the remote host, organizes it, and adds it to the list of authorized keys.

ARGUMENTS HOST is the address of a remote ssh server. USER is your account username on HOST. USER defaults to the environment variable $USER when not provided.

FUTURE ADDITIONS: Non-RSA key types. Improved error handling (i.e. key is on host, but not in the authorized list).

AUTHOR:

Bryan Matsuo <[email protected]>

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

This file is part of friendssh.

friendssh is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

friendssh is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with friendssh.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.