I wish i could take a contrary view and talk about how great VPS has been. Sadly no, Poor performance, poor support, poor everything.

Another dissatisfied VPS customer. I would love to find a good webhost but I don’t think there is such a thing, so I’ll settle for decent if anyone can find them.

Basically instead of wasting time dealing with their tech support, I’ve already signed up for hosting elsewhere.

First of all, what you should copy to your phone is your id_rsa.pub (i.e., PUBLIC key), so anything you get is not related to the passphrase to unlock the private key encryption. You probably just copied the command from the web with some escaped char in it, is that possibile?

Anyway, you can use whatever way you want to put your public key on your phone, e.g.:

1) just ssh into your phone
2) make sure that ~/.ssh/ dir exists
4) vim into the authorized_keys file
5) directly paste the content of your ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

This should keep you from having to insert the password.

As far as concern inserting the passphrase, the purpose of having a passphrase is that you have to enter it in order to use the private key each time. You cannot avoid that. If that really bothers you, you might instead consider a different strategy: rather than locking your id_rsa with a passphrase, just encrypt it manually (use something strong like ccrypt which uses something as strong as AES).

In this way, once you decrypt it, you can use it as long as you want without entering the passphrase.
However, this has still a number of disadvantages:

- first of all, you have to decrypt/re-encrypt the file yourself manually (and there’s a fair chance that you forget to do that sometimes)
- unlike passphrase-lock, during the time the file is decrypted, anyone with access to the file will be able to read it

Unfortunately, security has always its price: choose your poison

cheers

The problem is that when the script runs it’s first asking me for my passphrase for key ‘/home/daniel/.ssh/id_rsa AND then it’s asking me the root password to login. Now it sucks having to do that 10 times because my passphrase is very complex. ANyway to solve that?