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For this you required to generate your own personal set of private/public pair. ssh-keygen is used to generate that key pair for you. On the user’s home directory, on the localhost, type [local-host]$ ssh-keygen -t dsa This will ask you a passphrase. A passphrase is a sequence of words or other text used to control access to a computer system, program or data. A passphrase is similar to a password in usage, but is generally longer for added security. Once entered the passphrase you will be prompted to enter the same passphrase again for confirmation. The private key was saved in .ssh/id_dsa and the public key .ssh/id_dsa.pub. Now, copy the public key to the remote machine [local-host]$ scp .ssh/id_dsa.pub user@remote:~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub Now, login into the remote machine and go to the .ssh directory on the server side [local-host]$ ssh user@remote [remote-host]$ cd .ssh Now, add the client’s public key to the known public keys on the remote machine. [remote-host]$ cat id_d...