Mastering Linux Security and Hardening - Second Edition

Hands-on lab – creating and transferring SSH keys

In this lab, you'll use one virtual machine (VM)as your client, and one VM as the server. Alternatively, if you're using a Windows host machine, you can use Cygwin, PowerShell, or the built-in Windows Bash shell for the client. (Be aware, though, that PowerShell and the Windows Bash shell store the key files in alternate locations.) If you're on either a Mac or a Linux host machine, you can use the host machine's native command-line Terminal as the client. In any case, the procedure will be the same.

For the server VM, use either Ubuntu 18.04 or CentOS 7. This procedure does work the same on CentOS 8. However, we'll be using this same VM for the next few labs, and CentOS 8 has some special ...