Abstract: Instructions on setting up a Linux computer (server) so you can log in (from your client) with ssh without having to enter a password (using keys).<\/p>\n
Without a password, authentication is done with a key. To achieve password-less access, you need a key, and the computer you are logging in to needs to know about that key.
\nA Key has two parts – private and public. You keep the private part, you give the public part to anyone who needs to know you are who you say you are.<\/p>\n
Generate a key on the client computer using: You need to add the contents of ~\/.ssh\/id_rsa.pub to the file ~\/.ssh\/authorized_keys on the server, logged in as the user you will be using: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Abstract: Instructions on setting up a Linux computer (server) so you can log in (from your client) with ssh without having to enter a password (using keys). Without a password, authentication is done with a key. To achieve password-less access, you need a key, and the computer you are logging in to needs to know […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beneford.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beneford.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beneford.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beneford.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beneford.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beneford.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beneford.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beneford.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beneford.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nssh-keygen -t rsa<\/code>
\nThis will create two files:<\/p>\n\n\n
\n File<\/td>\n Description<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n ~\/.ssh\/id_rsa<\/td>\n Your private key<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n ~\/.ssh\/id_rsa.pub<\/td>\n Your public key<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\ncat ~\/.ssh\/id_rsa.pub | ssh user@server \"mkdir -p ~\/.ssh && cat >> ~\/.ssh\/authorized_keys\"<\/code>
\nThis is the last time you will need to enter the password.
\nFrom now on, you can just connect using:
\nssh user@server<\/code>
\nOr, if you are logged on to the client as the same username, just
\nssh-keygen -R ip-address<\/code><\/p>\n