Skip to main content

Creating a Key Pair

This is an example of how to create an SSH key pair. The example assumes that the user account used for collection is named 'risc'.

  1. Log in to the account.
    su - risc

  2. Create a keypair. This example uses the default configuration. See the SSH-keygen manual for configuration options.
    ssh-keygen

  3. Add the public key to the list of keys, so you can sign in to the local system.
    cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

  4. Ensure the file permissions on the authorized_keys file are correct. SSH is particular about file permissions, and will refuse to work if they are incorrect.
    chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

  5. Retrieve the contents of the private key. This can be copied into the RN150 appliance when creating an SSH credential entry.
    cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa