Without setting this up, you could get connection errors if SSH tries to use other SSH keys on your machine.

This entry will let us connect to reliablechair with a password while copy the public key over. These commands do not need an elevated console. If you do, you will have to enter the passphrase at some point before SSHing into the machine. You can choose to use a passphrase to secure the key or not. In that case, you can leave off the filename and use the default name provided by ssh-keygen. You can use the same key for multiple machines if desired.

I am making one for each target machine, which is probably not necessary. Set-Service -Name ssh-agent -StartupType Automatic Run the following commands in an elevated PowerShell console. OpenSSH is offered as a Windows feature, but I prefer to install it with Chocolatey. This guide is mostly instructions for future me when I inevitably forget them or pave over my machine again.įor the examples, I'll be using the username user and the machine reliablechair, which is on the network at reliablechair.lan. So I have been using SSH a lot more, and I want to make it easier to SSH into my growing litter of Linux boxes. Now I have some Raspberry Pi and recently converted my virtual machine host to Ubuntu. I have not used Linux very much since running Ubuntu almost 15 years ago.

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