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SSH Cheatsheet

SSH-Client

Generating a new SSH key

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "your_email@example.com"

Adding your SSH key to the ssh-agent

$ eval "$(ssh-agent -s)" $ ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Copy the Public Key to Server

$ ssh-copy-id SERVER_USER@SERVER_ADDRESS $ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh SERVER_USER@SERVER_ADDRESS "mkdir -p ~/.ssh && cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"

SSH Server

Install and run SSH Server

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install openssh-server
$ sudo systemctl restart ssh

Configuration: Accept ssh connections

Disable the Password for Root Login

  1. $ sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
  2. $ reload ssh
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