The following quickstart was copied from http://uaahosting.uaa.alaska.edu/axjww/sshkey/ By Jim Weller The purpose of this document is to quickly step you through using passwordless authentication to connect to servers using the SSH2 protocol. This document is unique in that it unifies all the clients and servers under a single identity. This document is very coarse and expects that you'll follow along with the videos and only use the notes as a supplement. Prerequisites Commercial SSH client version 3.2 or higher installed. ftp://ssh.com/pub/ssh Commercial SSH Accession agent ftp://ssh.com/pub/accession PuTTY SSH2 Client Suite http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ OpenSSH environment. Cygwin shown here, but Linux, Mac X, BSD, Solaris and many others apply http://www.cygwin.com/ Video Guides Generating your public and private keys Commercial SSH client to Commercial SSH Server Commercial SSH client to OpenSSH Server PuTTY client to Comm