Simple SSH public/private key question
- by James R.
I am trying to learn this instead of just following guides so I can recommend proper actions when people do ask (and they do). Here is what I got down.
First, generate both key with command such as this:
ssh-keygen -b 2048 -t rsa -C comment -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa
Then you push the public part of the key into authorized_keys2 file
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2
(and then chmod it to 600 or similar)
And you download the private key to your computer (id_rsa) and feed that in to Putty to be read and authenticate.
Are these the correct steps to setting this public/private key authentication for passwordless login to SSH?
