7 Server Admin

7.1 Setup Authentication with SSH keys

• How To Set Up SSH Keys on Ubuntu 16.04 | DigitalOcean

Note that ssh-keygen -m PEM is needed for logging into Amazon servers:

• Amazon EC2 Key Pairs - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

  SSH private key file format must be PEM (for example, use ssh-keygen -m PEM to convert the OpenSSH key into the PEM format)

7.1.1 Login

Once the key is generated on the server, logging into a terminal is simply a matter of specifying location of key file and the user@server:

ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pem bbest@imars-mbon.marine.usf.edu

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