[ale] Stupid question: SSH identity file for remote server

Jonathan Meek jonathan.l.meek at gmail.com
Fri Feb 27 21:11:08 EST 2015


Thanks for the help. It worked flawlessly and currently doing my 1st backup
with rdiff-backup. It only took 3 months to get things going again.

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 8:49 AM, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:

> 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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