[NTLUG:Discuss] Using SSH for remote file systems

[Chris Cox]

Leroy Tennison wrote:
> Chris mentioned this a couple of meetings ago and it came up in another
> conversation today.  Can someone give me a high-level overview of how to
> set this up such that a remote directory would be mounted either at
> login or when a user accessed the directory, something like:
> 
> Create key using ...
> Place public key (where?)
> Place private key (where?)
> Configure (what?)
> 

This should get your started... from Val Harris's presentation
on SSH and VNC...
http://www.ntlug.org/archive/tp/sshvnc_marko/ssh_and_vnc.sxw

(that's an OpenOffice document)

That covers SSH and password-less logins.

With regards to setting up NFS and the automounter, so
that you share a common home directory... you
can look at my intro to NIS, NFS and Automounting
at:

http://www.ntlug.org/~ccox/ntlug_nis/index.htm

If you have automounted home dirs working, your .ssh
directory is shared across all machines and therefore
if you have an ssh key setup for password less
logins, that will work across all machines that
use the shared NFS home dir.