You generate the key pair on the client (what you called the parent) and then copy the public portion to each server (what you called the child).
Here is a quick Google that I think should help:
http://itt.theintegrity.net/pmwiki.php?n=ITT.SSHKeyManagement
alex
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of bruce Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 9:37 AM To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: [CentOS] ssh key question
hi...
if i have a machine that i want to be able to automatically ssh into multiple child machines within the network, do i have to create a key for the parent machine, and supply the key to the child machines, or do i create a key for each child machine, and supply the keys to the parent?
thanks
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