On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 6:05 AM Bob Goodwin <bobgood...@fastmail.us> wrote:
> I've been reading the thread about detecting hack attempts and I am > interested in in setting up "key based authentication" as described > [perhaps] in > " > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Deployment_Guide/s2-ssh-configuration-keypairs.html > " > > In doing this is their danger of making an error and locking myself out > of my computer, if so what to avoid? I've made some catastrophic errors > in the not very distant past that required a new system re-installation > and would prefer not repeating that. > > Suggestions, thoughts? > Besides the other suggestions, for the more "mechanical" part of the process I highly recommend ssh-copy-id. It will check that you have correct permissions in ~/.ssh before copying the public key over to the remote system. If course you'll need to leave password auth turned on until you complete this. Thanks, Richard
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