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
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> 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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