The Rambling Chronicles: Notes

Posts Tagged ‘ssh’

1. Specify key file when SSHing

   9th Dec 2009

   If key is not named id_rsa need to specify when logging on.

   ssh -i ~/.ssh/key_file your@host.name

   Tags: id_rsa, public key, ssh
   

   
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2. SSH keys: the simple version

   19th Nov 2009

   SSH Keys –

   • Generate a key on your local machine. Just agree to all of the prompts:

   ssh-keygen

   • Find the .ssh directory in the home folder of the server you want to log in to. In it find/create the authorized_keys2 file in this directory.

   • Copy the created key from your local computers home folder to the servers authorized_keys2 file. The generated key is found in ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. Copy the entire line ending with your servers address from this file.

   • Make sure that the servers authorized_keys2 file is set to read only local. Chmod to 600 to be sure.

   • Log out of the server, log back in and check if it worked!

   Tags: key, server, ssh
   

   
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