It happens that sometimes you need to access a remote box which supports ssh key authentication. Recently I was trying to reproduce a bug related to SSH public key authentication, so here I would like to share some of my experience.
There will be no explanation of the public key authentication itself here, rather the actual setup and steps to have a public key auth for Windows(client) -> Linux(server) working. Why Windows you would ask? Because interactions for Linux->Linux and for Mac OS X -> Linux simply work using the Unix way, while for Windows you may need some extra actions to do.
Setup
What I had at endpoints:
- Linux –
Ubuntu 11.04, sshd is set up to deny password
auth.
Windows – well, it is an XP SP3 i386 box. MySQL Workbench
5.2.34+ is installed
First of all I created an encrypted pair of RSA keys, …
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