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Create a SSH key? - Lorenzon - Jun 22, 2015
I'm asked to create a SSH key to access a server. My question is, is it just as easy as running the ssh-keygen and save the keys or should I do something special like specifing the user and the domain?
I mean should I create a key that is in this format: [email protected] or is [email protected] okay that's created when I just run the ssh-keygen?
Don't really know how these keys work I've searched a bit but I haven't found anything that's relevant too my situation.
I'm running Mac btw but that shouldn't matter.
* - Benign - Jun 22, 2015
Yes it is as simple as using ssh-keygen as the user that you want to authenticate remotely as, then copying the public key that gets created (for example for RSA it's id_rsa.pub) to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the client.
Then you can seamlessly authenticate to the server from the client using ssh, with the user that you created the key as.
* - Lorenzon - Jun 23, 2015
(Jun 22, 2015 11:41 PM)Benign Wrote: Yes it is as simple as using ssh-keygen as the user that you want to authenticate remotely as, then copying the public key that gets created (for example for RSA it's id_rsa.pub) to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the client.
Then you can seamlessly authenticate to the server from the client using ssh, with the user that you created the key as.
Yeah but I think I'll be authenticating as the root user, should I create a key that's like [email protected] or will the certificate that's created if I just run the ssh-keygen okay?
* - Betty Blue - Jun 23, 2015
(Jun 23, 2015 12:22 AM)Lorenzon Wrote: Yeah but I think I'll be authenticating as the root user, should I create a key that's like [email protected] or will the certificate that's created if I just run the ssh-keygen okay?Don't do that. Don't authenticate as root even with keys.
If you insist on doing that. You just need to use ssh-keygen. Then use scp to copy it to the remote server. Then change ssh_config so it says
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PasswordAuthentication no
* - xkox - Jun 25, 2015
ssh-add /home/user/.ssh/id_dsa
ssh USER@HOST_NAME -p
And you're ready to go.