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PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook
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PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook

by Prashanth Jayaram, Ram Iyer
November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
566 pages
17h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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A key-pair is made up of two files: a private key file that a user keeps and a public key that is stored on the remote server. On using the SSH protocol, the user tries to establish the connection between server and client with the exchange key information to determine if the user is allowed to log on.

Let's take a look at the way we can generate a key-pair using a tool called SSH-keygen. It offers a lot of different options for changing the encryption algorithm, but in this case, the default values are used to generate a key-pair.

First, I'm asked where I want to save the key. The tool suggests the hidden .ssh folder in my home folder, under the name id_RSA. This is the default, but you can set any name you like. The SSH ...

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