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9 SSH Quick-Start Guide

If you are using FreeBSD 4.0 or later, OpenSSH is included in the base system. If you are using an earlier release, update and install one of the SSH ports. In general, you will probably want to get OpenSSH from the security/openssh port. You may also wish to check out the original ssh1 in the security/ssh port, but make certain you pay attention to its license. Note that both of these ports cannot be installed at the same time.
If you do not wish to type your password in every time you use ssh(1), and you use RSA or DSA keys to authenticate, ssh-agent(1) is there for your convenience. If you want to use ssh-agent(1), make sure that you run it before running other applications. X users, for example, usually do this from their .xsession or .xinitrc file. See ssh-agent(1) for details.
Generate a key pair using ssh-keygen(1). The key pair will wind up in your $HOME/.ssh/ directory.
Send your public key ($HOME/.ssh/id_dsa.pub or $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) to the person setting you up as a committer so it can be put into yourlogin file in /c/ssh-keys/ on freefall.

Now you should be able to use ssh-add(1) for authentication once per session. This will prompt you for your private key's pass phrase, and then store it in your authentication agent ( ssh-agent(1)). If you no longer wish to have your key stored in the agent, issuing ssh-add -d will remove it.

Test by doing something such as ssh freefall.FreeBSD.org ls /usr.

For more information, see security/openssh, ssh(1), ssh-add(1), ssh-agent(1), ssh-keygen(1), and scp(1).

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