Jun 28, 2022 · In my case, ssh-keygen generated the keys inside the current directory, not into the path it claimed to generate them in. I was also following these instructions and was quite confused as well.

Apr 23, 2018 · When you connect to an SSH server, you identify yourself to the server (using either your login and password, or a key), and the server identifies itself to you, using its host key. This is …

Jan 2, 2018 · 6 I need to connect to a SSH proxy server using a ssh keypair that I created specifically for it (not my default id_rsa keypair). I see from the ssh manual that there is a -i option that I can use to …

Nov 17, 2018 · The ssh command will attempt all ssh keys before asking for a password as one can see when using the -v flag. Anyway, after playing enough with SSH, I figured that you can also set up a …

Dec 16, 2017 · Remote SSH login password would be enough in this case. I can speculate that this prevents adding your public key (which is paired with encrypted private key) without knowing …

Mar 18, 2016 · ssh: connect to host HOSTNAME port 22: Connection refused Check-list: What happens if you run the ssh command directly from the command line? Are you able to ping that machine? …

ssh has the -i option to tell which private key file to use when authenticating: -i identity_file Selects a file from which the identity (private key) for RSA or DSA authentication is read. The default is …

So I tried using an SSH connection made over the HTTPS port by editing the config file ~/.ssh/config but to no avail. Host github.com Hostname ssh.github.com Port 443 Finally, I found this article which …

With ssh -i <private key filename> you can instruct ssh to use an extra private key to try authentication. The documentation is not clear on how to explicitly use only that key.

Typically, one runs ssh-keygen to generate a keypair on the local machine, then ssh-copy-id to copy the public key to remote machines. It seems that you are doing things differently. Why, what is your goal?