Dec 18, 2019 We will also show you how to set up an SSH key-based authentication and connect to your remote Linux servers without entering a password. Creating SSH keys on Ubuntu # Before generating a new SSH key pair first, check for existing SSH keys on your Ubuntu client machine. You can do that by running the following ls command: ls -l /.ssh/id.pub. Aug 19, 2019 Using SSH keys for authentication is highly recommended, as a safer alternative to passwords. This tutorial will guide you through the steps on how to generate and set up SSH keys on CentOS 7. We also cover connecting to a remote server using the keys. Mar 31, 2018 Generate public key and store into a file. It is a simple one liner command to generate a public key from a private key, so lets say our private key is named ‘user@myserver.key’ and we want to generate the public key and name it ‘authorizedkeys’. Add your SSH private key to the ssh-agent. If you created your key with a different name, or if you are adding an existing key that has a different name, replace idrsa in the command with the name of your private key file. $ ssh-add /.ssh/idrsa; Add the SSH key to your GitHub account.

This section of Getting Started assumes that:

You have recently installed Bitvise SSH Server.
You have configured the SSH Server for access using SFTP, for Git access, or another purpose.
You have installed Bitvise SSH Client on the computer from which you wish to connect.
You wish to configure public key authentication between the SSH Server and Client.

Before you configure public key authentication, it is important to understand:

Public keys, in the way they are commonly used in SSH, are not X.509 certificates.
Client authentication keys are separate from server authentication keys (host keys).
A keypair consists of a private key and a public key, which are separate.
A private key should never be sent to another party. It is private.

If this is the first time you are using public keys, we recommend the page Public keys in SSH.

To use public key authentication, the client from which you are connecting needs to have a public/private keypair. To generate a keypair using Bitvise SSH Client, run the graphical SSH Client, and open the Client key manager:

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Press the Generate button to generate a new keypair:

Guidelines:

Unless required for compatibility reasons, do not generate a DSA keypair. Only 1024-bit DSA keys are interoperable in SSH, and this key size is no longer considered adequate when using the DSA algorithm. Generate either an ECDSA keypair, or an RSA keypair of size 2048 bits or larger.
If you have saved a named SSH Client profile, the keypair generation interface will offer to store the keypair either in the profile, or globally.
When the keypair is stored globally, it is stored in the Windows registry for the current user, under HKCUSoftwareBitviseKeypairs.
It may be useful to store the keypair in a profile if the profile is going to be used on other computers, or by a job that runs as a different Windows account on the same computer. In SSH Client versions 7.xx and higher, the setting Sensitive information accessibility on the Login tab controls whether a keypair stored in the profile can be read by another Windows user, or on another computer.
You can choose a passphrase with which to protect the keypair. If you enter a passphrase, you will need to provide it every time the keypair is used for authentication.

Before you can use public key authentication, the public key for the keypair you have generated must be configured in the SSH Server. If you are able to connect to the SSH Server using password authentication, you can connect to the server and upload the public key using the Client key manager:

If the SSH Server does not allow you to connect using password authentication, or does not allow you to upload the key, you will need to send the public key to the server administrator using an alternate method of communication. To do this, export the public key using the Client key manager:

For help with importing the public key into Bitvise SSH Server, check the Public Key Authentication section of our SSH Server Usage FAQ.

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Once the public key has been uploaded or imported for your account in the SSH Server, configure the SSH Client to enable public key authentication on the Login tab:

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You should now be able to connect to the SSH Server using your public key:

Save the profile to preserve this configuration.