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Setting Up SSH Keys in ECC-Linux

Setting up SSH Keys is a fairly simple procedure to authenticate to ECC-Linux

MacOS / Linux Instructions

1. Connect to the VPN (Instructions)

2. Create an SSH Public / Private Key

   ssh-keygen -b 4096 -t rsa

3. You can view your SSH Keys with the following command

   cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

4. There are two ways to copy this key onto the remote server

Using ssh-copy-id

Run the command ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub <USER@SERVER_NAME>

You should now be able to authenticate to your host machine without a password

Adding SSH key to Remote Server Manually

1. On your local machine run cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
2. Copy the entire file
3. On the host machine run vim ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
4. Copy the your public key into a new line

You should now be able to authenticate to your host machine without a password

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