Quick and dirty steps to getting remote ssh access setup. Obviously, not meant to be comprehensive; those can be found elsewhere on the interweb. More of a mental bookmark to be found online; to augment
this.
- run
ssh-keygen on the remote user
- copy the contents of the remote
id_rsa.pub file (i.e your public key) that was just generated, and append it to the local ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file.
Note: basically the steps scripted by ssh-copy-id
Note2: make sure your file permissions are kosher.
- DONE!
ssh <host> -l <username> away to your heart's content. Flip the steps if you need access in the other direction