ssh without password

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From: "Bill K." <bilkay0@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 10:03:42 -0500

I really want to be able to start a script on the "gateway" PC from
another PC, and I want to be able to do it without entering a password.
It seems that I should be able to do that with ssh, but ssh insists on
requiring a password! I've run ssh-keygen on the other PC and copied the
identity.pub to the "gateway" PC as the man page describes, but the first
time I tried it, I received a message that the gateway "host" could not
be authenticated and asked if I wanted to proceed. After I replied "yes",
I could log in, but only after entering a password. Subsequent tries also
demand a password. What's wrong? This is annoying. In my experience,
"security" that is excessively annoying eventually gets bypassed and
results in no security at all.

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