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To connect to a server we must use SSH on the client as follows, # ssh -p port user@server-address port - The listening ssh port of the server (default port 22). user - Must be an existing user on the server with SSH privileges. server address - The IP/Domain of the server. For a real wor...

Both connecting to a remove SSH server and accepting SSH connections require installation of openssh Debian: # apt-get install openssh Arch Linux: # pacman -S openssh Yum: # yum install openssh

To generate keys for SSH client: ssh-keygen [-t rsa | rsa1 | dsa ] [-C <comment>] [-b bits] For example: ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 - C [email protected] Default location is ~/.ssh/id_rsa for private and ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub for public key. For more info, please visit man.openbsd.org

First we must edit the SSH daemon config file. Though under different Linux distributions this may be located in different directories, usually it is stored under /etc/ssh/sshd_config Use your text editor to change the values set in this file, all lines starting with # are commented out and must ha...

This will disable the SSH server side service, as if needed this will insure that clients cannot connect via ssh Ubuntu sudo service ssh stop Debian sudo /etc/init.d/ssh stop Arch Linux sudo killall sshd

First of all you'll need to have a key pair. If you don't have one yet, take a look at the 'Generate public and private key topic'. Your key pair is composed by a private key (id_rsa) and a public key (id_rsa.pub). All you need to do is to copy the public key to the remote host and add its contents...