How do I set up my SSH keys so I can copy files from my local PC to a remote shared server?
I want to start using SSH instead of FTP, but I am clueless when it comes to SSH keys.
I'd like to use a Gulp command to transfer my files (as I do now with FTP). I've found a good amount of NPM packages that do this. However, none explain how to actually set up SSH keys on my remote shared (LAMP) server and on my local machine (MacOS).
Would anyone know how to set this up? All the tutorials I've found deal with setting up the node.js package, not the SSH keys themselves.
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I want to start using SSH instead of FTP, but I am clueless when it comes to SSH keys.
I'd like to use a Gulp command to transfer my files (as I do now with FTP). I've found a good amount of NPM packages that do this. However, none explain how to actually set up SSH keys on my remote shared (LAMP) server and on my local machine (MacOS).
Would anyone know how to set this up? All the tutorials I've found deal with setting up the node.js package, not the SSH keys themselves.
ftp ssh gulp
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I want to start using SSH instead of FTP, but I am clueless when it comes to SSH keys.
I'd like to use a Gulp command to transfer my files (as I do now with FTP). I've found a good amount of NPM packages that do this. However, none explain how to actually set up SSH keys on my remote shared (LAMP) server and on my local machine (MacOS).
Would anyone know how to set this up? All the tutorials I've found deal with setting up the node.js package, not the SSH keys themselves.
ftp ssh gulp
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I want to start using SSH instead of FTP, but I am clueless when it comes to SSH keys.
I'd like to use a Gulp command to transfer my files (as I do now with FTP). I've found a good amount of NPM packages that do this. However, none explain how to actually set up SSH keys on my remote shared (LAMP) server and on my local machine (MacOS).
Would anyone know how to set this up? All the tutorials I've found deal with setting up the node.js package, not the SSH keys themselves.
ftp ssh gulp
ftp ssh gulp
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- Perhaps, this article might interest you. However, before following this article, it would be nice to setup the SSH trust first.
- So, the problem statement is, you want to copy some files from your local machine to a remote server.
- To do that, you have to first chose an authentication method. Assuming the remote server is Linux, you've got two options - Password based and Password Less a.k.a SSH Key based authentication.
- For the remote server to authenticate you, these are the steps which need to happen
- You create an SSH keypair (Private Key + Public Key) on your local machine.
- You just copy/append the contents public key from your local machine to the .ssh/authorized_keys file of the remote server.
Now, when you will try to SSH to the remote server from your local machine, you will specify in the command that you are trying to authenticate with the private key file that you already have created in the first step and the authentication will be successful since you have imported the corresponding public key to the remote server's authorized_keys file.
First, lets create keypair:
ssh-keygen -t rsaand then select all default options by just pressing Enter key.- In the output of the above command, you will see that the private and public key files will be generated e.g.:
Your identification has been saved in /home/ec2-user/.ssh/id_rsa
Your public key has been saved in /home/ec2-user/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
- Now, just copy/append the id_rsa.pub's CONTENT file from the directory mentioned in your case to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.
- To confirm that the SSH trust has been established, just try to SSH from your local machine to the remote server by using this command -
ssh -i /location/of/private/key username@remote_server_ip
- If everything's good and you are able to login, then you just have to follow the link I mentioned in the first line of this post.
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- Perhaps, this article might interest you. However, before following this article, it would be nice to setup the SSH trust first.
- So, the problem statement is, you want to copy some files from your local machine to a remote server.
- To do that, you have to first chose an authentication method. Assuming the remote server is Linux, you've got two options - Password based and Password Less a.k.a SSH Key based authentication.
- For the remote server to authenticate you, these are the steps which need to happen
- You create an SSH keypair (Private Key + Public Key) on your local machine.
- You just copy/append the contents public key from your local machine to the .ssh/authorized_keys file of the remote server.
Now, when you will try to SSH to the remote server from your local machine, you will specify in the command that you are trying to authenticate with the private key file that you already have created in the first step and the authentication will be successful since you have imported the corresponding public key to the remote server's authorized_keys file.
First, lets create keypair:
ssh-keygen -t rsaand then select all default options by just pressing Enter key.- In the output of the above command, you will see that the private and public key files will be generated e.g.:
Your identification has been saved in /home/ec2-user/.ssh/id_rsa
Your public key has been saved in /home/ec2-user/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
- Now, just copy/append the id_rsa.pub's CONTENT file from the directory mentioned in your case to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.
- To confirm that the SSH trust has been established, just try to SSH from your local machine to the remote server by using this command -
ssh -i /location/of/private/key username@remote_server_ip
- If everything's good and you are able to login, then you just have to follow the link I mentioned in the first line of this post.
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- Perhaps, this article might interest you. However, before following this article, it would be nice to setup the SSH trust first.
- So, the problem statement is, you want to copy some files from your local machine to a remote server.
- To do that, you have to first chose an authentication method. Assuming the remote server is Linux, you've got two options - Password based and Password Less a.k.a SSH Key based authentication.
- For the remote server to authenticate you, these are the steps which need to happen
- You create an SSH keypair (Private Key + Public Key) on your local machine.
- You just copy/append the contents public key from your local machine to the .ssh/authorized_keys file of the remote server.
Now, when you will try to SSH to the remote server from your local machine, you will specify in the command that you are trying to authenticate with the private key file that you already have created in the first step and the authentication will be successful since you have imported the corresponding public key to the remote server's authorized_keys file.
First, lets create keypair:
ssh-keygen -t rsaand then select all default options by just pressing Enter key.- In the output of the above command, you will see that the private and public key files will be generated e.g.:
Your identification has been saved in /home/ec2-user/.ssh/id_rsa
Your public key has been saved in /home/ec2-user/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
- Now, just copy/append the id_rsa.pub's CONTENT file from the directory mentioned in your case to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.
- To confirm that the SSH trust has been established, just try to SSH from your local machine to the remote server by using this command -
ssh -i /location/of/private/key username@remote_server_ip
- If everything's good and you are able to login, then you just have to follow the link I mentioned in the first line of this post.
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- Perhaps, this article might interest you. However, before following this article, it would be nice to setup the SSH trust first.
- So, the problem statement is, you want to copy some files from your local machine to a remote server.
- To do that, you have to first chose an authentication method. Assuming the remote server is Linux, you've got two options - Password based and Password Less a.k.a SSH Key based authentication.
- For the remote server to authenticate you, these are the steps which need to happen
- You create an SSH keypair (Private Key + Public Key) on your local machine.
- You just copy/append the contents public key from your local machine to the .ssh/authorized_keys file of the remote server.
Now, when you will try to SSH to the remote server from your local machine, you will specify in the command that you are trying to authenticate with the private key file that you already have created in the first step and the authentication will be successful since you have imported the corresponding public key to the remote server's authorized_keys file.
First, lets create keypair:
ssh-keygen -t rsaand then select all default options by just pressing Enter key.- In the output of the above command, you will see that the private and public key files will be generated e.g.:
Your identification has been saved in /home/ec2-user/.ssh/id_rsa
Your public key has been saved in /home/ec2-user/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
- Now, just copy/append the id_rsa.pub's CONTENT file from the directory mentioned in your case to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.
- To confirm that the SSH trust has been established, just try to SSH from your local machine to the remote server by using this command -
ssh -i /location/of/private/key username@remote_server_ip
- If everything's good and you are able to login, then you just have to follow the link I mentioned in the first line of this post.
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- Perhaps, this article might interest you. However, before following this article, it would be nice to setup the SSH trust first.
- So, the problem statement is, you want to copy some files from your local machine to a remote server.
- To do that, you have to first chose an authentication method. Assuming the remote server is Linux, you've got two options - Password based and Password Less a.k.a SSH Key based authentication.
- For the remote server to authenticate you, these are the steps which need to happen
- You create an SSH keypair (Private Key + Public Key) on your local machine.
- You just copy/append the contents public key from your local machine to the .ssh/authorized_keys file of the remote server.
Now, when you will try to SSH to the remote server from your local machine, you will specify in the command that you are trying to authenticate with the private key file that you already have created in the first step and the authentication will be successful since you have imported the corresponding public key to the remote server's authorized_keys file.
First, lets create keypair:
ssh-keygen -t rsaand then select all default options by just pressing Enter key.- In the output of the above command, you will see that the private and public key files will be generated e.g.:
Your identification has been saved in /home/ec2-user/.ssh/id_rsa
Your public key has been saved in /home/ec2-user/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
- Now, just copy/append the id_rsa.pub's CONTENT file from the directory mentioned in your case to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.
- To confirm that the SSH trust has been established, just try to SSH from your local machine to the remote server by using this command -
ssh -i /location/of/private/key username@remote_server_ip
- If everything's good and you are able to login, then you just have to follow the link I mentioned in the first line of this post.
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