If the login is an non-interactive user utilized to perform utility tasks (e.g. Running running maine scripts on remote servers), then yes, you would probably generate the key for that user manually. Of course, that has its own security implications, but that's another story. In order to provide a public key, each user in your system must generate one if they don’t already have one. This process is similar across all operating systems. First, you should check to make sure you don’t already have a key. By default, a user’s SSH keys are stored in that user’s /.ssh directory. You can easily check to see if you.
This guide will show you how to enable SSH (remote login) on your Mac OS X machine and connect to it using a private key file (.ppk) while disabling password logins (more secure). In this example, we will setup the remote connection using Putty.
Create a .ssh directory. This directory will be hidden in your Mac X User home path.
Generate SSH private and public keys.
Create the authorized_keys file in Terminal.
authorized_keys - your shared public key file
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id_rsa - your private key
id_rsa.pub - your public key
Note:You can run PuttyGen.exe on Mac OS X following this guide. Otherwise, you will need to run PuttyGen on a Windows machine.
You now have a .ppk Freemake video converter 4.1 10 key generator reviews. file we can use for our Putty connection. Save this key somewhere safe and never share it with anyone!
Next, we will configure SSH on our Mac to only allow key authentications and disable password authentications. This will immediately drop a connection made to our Mac unless a key file is being used (more secure).
Change UsePAM no
Uncomment and change PasswordAuthentication no
Now, we can use Putty to create an SSH connection to our Mac we generated our keys on. Download and install Putty here.
Note:You can run Putty.exe on Mac OS X following this guide.
Open Putty and create a new connection. We will point to our private key file (.ppk). Go to Connection -> SSH -> Auth and load the .ppk file here. This can be tricky, ensure your creating a new connection in Putty and saving it so it remembers the key we just imported.
Try connecting. You will receive a login prompt for username. This will be the user of your Mac (any other username you put here will fail immediately).
If successful, you will login to your shell immediately pictured below! No password needed!
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