On Ramses, the remote machine, your public key (\*.pub) will be a single-line item in your `~/.ssh/authorized_keys` file. Together with your matching local private key, it enables SSH authentication without password request.
#### 2.2.3 Step 3 (optional): Wanna pass on the passphrase? - Call your agent!
`ssh-agent` is a program which can automatically do your authentication when logging in to a remote machine via ssh. Thus, to avoid providing the passphrase during multiple subsequent sessions, you can load the private key into memory using the ssh-agent.
`ssh-agent` is a program which can automatically do your authentication when logging in to a remote machine via SSH. Thus, to avoid providing the passphrase during multiple subsequent sessions, you can load the private key into memory using the SSH agent.
