Run on your machine
ssh-keygen -t rsa
copy key from
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
Go to remote host and paste just copied to
~/.ssh/authorized_keys
Depending on your version of SSH you might also have to do the following changes:
- Put the public key in .ssh/authorized_keys2
- Change the permissions of .ssh to 700
- Change the permissions of .ssh/authorized_keys2 to 640