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The Secure Shell extension is perfectly appropriate here. SSH keys come in two parts: a private key and a public key. The public key is placed on the destination server(s), in (for example) ~/.ssh...
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dsr
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2021-12-22T13:18:48Z (almost 3 years ago)
The Secure Shell extension is perfectly appropriate here. SSH keys come in two parts: a private key and a public key. The public key is placed on the destination server(s), in (for example) `~/.ssh/authorized_keys`. The important thing about a private key is that it remains private to you. You can transfer it just as you would any other file, but you will want to delete any copies in insecure places -- so if you generate a key pair on a machine and copy it to a USB stick, you need to watch that USB stick carefully until it is destroyed. It is therefore easier on many systems to generate the key pair on the system which will use the private key -- but it is not necessary.