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Enabling SSH log-in to Google Cloud VM
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Enabling SSH log-in to Google Cloud VM

Situation

We want to SSH into the newly created VM in Google Cloud. We already have the private key (id_rsa) and associated public key (id_rsa.pub)

Pre-requisites

  • You should have permossions to run gcloud utility.

Actions

  1. go to console.cloud.google.com and click "SSH" for this instance.
  2. upload your public ssh key (click the gear icon on top right).
  3. chmod 400 the_uploaded_key.pub
  4. "gcloud auth login" and follow the authentication prompt
  5. "gcloud compute os-login ssh-keys add --key-file=the_uploaded_key.pub --ttl=0"

Results

We can log-in via SSH. Yay!

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