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Subject: [ale] Stupid question: SSH identity file for remote server
From: DJPfulio at jdpfu.com (DJ-Pfulio)
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 08:49:42 -0500
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On 02/23/2015 08:26 AM, Jonathan Meek wrote:
> Am I thinking correctly in that if I want to do SSH keys instead of passwords
> that I will need to create a public/private keys on my laptop and then copy the
> public key over to the server under the .ssh folder for the user on my server?
> 

Yes.  Use ssh-copy-id.


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