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Creating Keys

This is a brief guide to creating a public/private key pair that can be used for OpenSSL. While the "easy" version will work, I find it convenient to generate a single PEM bundle and then export the private/public key from that as needed. This document also covers how to add and remove a password from your private key and how to make sure that keychain will automatically unlock it when you sign in.

Just make it work

Generate an ssh key-pair:

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PSQL

Magic words:

psql -U postgres

Some interesting flags (to see all, use -h or --help depending on your psql version):

• -E: will describe the underlaying queries of the \ commands (cool for learning!)
• -l: psql will list all databases and then exit (useful if the user you connect with doesn't has a default database, like at AWS RDS)