{"id":2393,"date":"2024-07-31T11:53:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/?p=2393"},"modified":"2024-07-31T11:53:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:53:04","slug":"generating-ssh-key-pairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/2024\/generating-ssh-key-pairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Generating SSH key pairs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite having had some excitement<\/a> recently<\/a>, SSH<\/a> continues to be both the utility and a protocol that I use heavily every day. I will also have to shout out to mosh<\/a> which is a must have overlay, if you aren’t using it – stop reading this now and go get mosh<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Not often, but every once in a while I find myself needing to generate a new key pair for use with SSH. GitHub has one of the best articles<\/a> on doing this, but it’s not quite what I want. I find myself having to re-think the small differences I want to make each time, clearly time to write up what I do so I can just visit this post when I need to generate a key.<\/p>\n

$ ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C \"comment here\" -f basename<\/pre>\n
Yup, that’s it. In the directory you run this there will be two files generated. The private key is basename<\/code>, and the public key is basename.pub<\/code>. I’m also a fan of the .ssh\/config file<\/a> which you may want to adopt, this makes it easy to have different keys for different systems.<\/p>\n
Breaking down the creation command. We are generating a key using the Ed25519<\/a> algorithm, most modern systems will support this. Next up we see that we are adding a comment, I find this useful to identify what the public key is for. Last is the filename(s) we want the output written to.<\/p>\n
You’ll see that comments often have no whitespace in them, if you want to be risk adverse avoid using spaces and use dashes or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Despite having had some excitement recently, SSH continues to be both the utility and a protocol that I use heavily every day. I will also have to shout out to mosh which is a must have overlay, if you aren’t using it – stop reading this now and go get mosh. Not often, but every … Continue reading “Generating SSH key pairs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-how-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2395,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions\/2395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}