Dave Townsend

Vagrant VM built for Laravel - http://laravel.com/docs/homestead

If manually adding the file, be sure to set it's permissions to 600

chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6377009/adding-public-key-to-ssh-authorized-keys-does-not-log-me-in-automatically

If you're using Windows or don't have access to ssh-copy-id, you can just copy and paste your id_rsa.pub key in to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

I haven't looked at Cygwin properly before. It looks a lot more powerful and extendible. I'll have to look in to configuring it though, it doesn't seem as simple as Console2.