{"id":2077,"date":"2021-06-10T15:46:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T12:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/?p=2077"},"modified":"2022-02-03T17:42:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T15:42:39","slug":"how-to-generate-an-ssh-key-pair-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/how-to-generate-an-ssh-key-pair-in-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Generate an SSH Key Pair in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

SSH connections<\/b><\/a> allow you to create secure connections between your device and a server. They rely on public-private key pairs for this to happen. The system offers greater security compared to credential-based access methods such as <\/span>username and password.<\/b><\/p>\n

The generation of SSH key pairs<\/b> must be done on your device to create a set that matches your device. The process will differ slightly depending on the system used.<\/span><\/p>\n

Generating an SSH Key Pair on Linux<\/span><\/h2>\n

\"How<\/p>\n

    \n
  • Step 1. <\/b>Open a terminal window and type:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    ssh-keygen -t rsa<\/b><\/p>\n

      \n
    • Step 2.<\/b> Enter the path where you wish to save the key. The default path is <\/span>\u201c\/home\/username\/.ssh\/id_rsa\u201d <\/b>– you can simply hit the enter key to accept this.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Step 3.<\/b>  Enter your passphrase\/password, then one more time to confirm that it is correct. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      You can locate the generated keys in the directory specified in Step 2 above.<\/b> The public key should be uploaded to your server, while the private key should be embedded in your device.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      SSH connections allow you to create secure connections between your device and a server. They rely on public-private key pairs for this to happen. The system offers greater security compared to credential-based access methods such as username and password. The generation of SSH key pairs must be done on your device to create a set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-hosting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2077"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3109,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions\/3109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}