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How to configure ssh key

By admin • June 5, 2010 • Filed in: Articles

SSH key is a secure authentication method of openssh server. Let us install ssh key easily between two server.

Source Server:This is the server from which I need to connect.
Destination Server: This is the server into which I am going to connect.
Let us create ssh key for the root user in source server  for accessing a backup user  in destination server.

Create key in Source Server:

Do the following command as root

# ssh-keygen -t rsa

Now hit Enter key until you see the shell prompt again
So now we have two keys private and public in /root/.ssh  . We only need the public key

Copy public key to Destination server:

Copy the content of public key,/root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub,  from source server to the destination server into the files file  ( /home/backupuser/.ssh/authorized_keys  . This is for  ssh user  “backupuser”.
Testing:
Now try ssh from the  Source server to destination server as follows,

# ssh  backupuser@destinationserver

If you are in without password , then  the ssh-key configuration is success. If not, your ssh key is not working, check the error logs in /var/log/secure

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