ssh forward 101

Generate the public and private key pair This step is quite strightforward, just generate the keys by using ssh-keygen: $ ssh-keygen #specify the key file name (I use the id_ plus remote site hostname) then you’ll get 2 keys locally, you can do this step in any place, but people do it on their home-dir/.ssh, after the creation, you need to change the mask of the key file: $ chmod 600 id_site...

October 25, 2012 2 min