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Mastering Linux Security and Hardening
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Mastering Linux Security and Hardening

by Donald A. Tevault
January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
376 pages
8h 45m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating a user's SSH key set

Each user has the ability to create his or her own set of private and public keys. It doesn't matter whether the user's client machine is running Linux, MacOS, or Cygwin on Windows. In all three cases, the procedure is exactly the same. To demo, I'll create keys on my OpenSUSE workstation and transfer the public key to one of my virtual machines. It doesn't matter which virtual machine I use, but since I haven't shown much love to the CentOS machine lately, I'll use it.

I'll begin by creating the keys on my OpenSUSE workstation:

donnie@linux-0ro8:~> ssh-keygenGenerating public/private rsa key pair.Enter file in which to save the key (/home/donnie/.ssh/id_rsa):Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):Enter same ...
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ISBN: 9781788620307