Is there a step by step for setting up private/public key use

[A Former User]

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[Boken Lin]

Hi @Rudy-Trujillo, Here's a quick run down of what you need to do. I will update this into the Wiki tomorrow:

1. Open up the terminal on your computer, and navigate to .ssh

cd ~/.ssh

1. Turn on your ssh-agent, which is a daemon that manages your ssh keys:

eval `ssh-agent -s`

1. Generate the Private/Public key pair

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "user@email.com"

1. Now just follow the wizard, and it will generate a key for you. If you left everything at the default value, your private key will be saved at id_rsa, and your public key will be saved at id_rsa.pub.

2. Then, you will be adding your key to your system, so that your computer will know which key to login to servers/omega with:

ssh-add id_rsa

1. Finally, you just need to copy the content of your id_rsa.pub and place it on a new line in the authorized_keys file on the remote computer you want to log into. The location of this file is usually in the user's ~/.ssh folder. If you are using this to log into the Omega, the file should be under /etc/dropbear. Note, if you are unable to find this file in the folders mentioned, you simply need to create it.

Cheers!