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create-ssh-key.md
  1. Generate the public and the private keys on local machine (give a name if you need)
ssh-keygen

  1. Copy the content for .pub file

  2. Create a file under $USER/.ssh/authorized_keys on the server if it does not exists yet

  3. Paste the content of the .pub file on the authorized_keys file, save and close the file

  4. Try to connect without the password, juste ssh username@servername -i path_to_key_file

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