{"id":21047,"date":"2024-10-18T20:28:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T02:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/?p=21047"},"modified":"2024-10-18T21:00:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T03:00:13","slug":"how-to-set-up-a-trusted-ssh-connection-using-private-and-public-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/how-to-set-up-a-trusted-ssh-connection-using-private-and-public-keys\/","title":{"rendered":"How to set up a Trusted SSH Connection using Private and Public Keys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SSH into your NAS<\/strong> using your preferred SSH client: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">ssh admin@192.168.1.xx<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Generate the SSH key pair<\/strong>:\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Copy the Public Key to the Web Server <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">ssh-copy-id user@webserver.com \nor do it manually if ssh-copy is not installed<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Copy the Public Key Manually to the Web Server  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">ssh user@webserver.com\nmkdir -p ~\/.ssh\nchmod 700 ~\/.ssh\n\ngo to NAS to copy public key\nscp ~\/.ssh\/id_rsa.pub user@webserver.com:~\/.ssh\/temp_key.pub\n\n\/\/append to  authorized_keys, clean up and set permissions\nssh user@webserver.com \ncat ~\/.ssh\/temp_key.pub &gt;&gt; ~\/.ssh\/authorized_keys\nrm ~\/.ssh\/temp_key.pub\nchmod 600 ~\/.ssh\/authorized_keys\n\n\/\/test\nexit\nssh user@webserver.com<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">If you are connecting and not using the root account<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">mkdir -p \/var\/services\/homes\/userName\/.ssh\ncp \/root\/.ssh\/id_rsa \/var\/services\/homes\/userName\/.ssh\/\n\nchown -R  userName:users \/var\/services\/homes\/userName\/.ssh\nchmod 700 \/var\/services\/homes\/userName\/.ssh\nchmod 600 \/var\/services\/homes\/userName\/.ssh\/id_rsa<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">\/\/ prevents prompt\nssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no root@ftp.trinijunglejuice.com<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>This will:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Automatically accept<\/strong> the new server\u2019s key without prompting.<\/li><li><strong>Add the key<\/strong> to the <code>known_hosts<\/code> file for future connections.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SSH into your NAS using your preferred SSH client: ssh admin@192.168.1.xx Generate the SSH key pair: ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 Copy the Public Key to the Web Server ssh-copy-id user@webserver.com or do it manually if ssh-copy is not installed Copy the Public Key Manually to the Web Server ssh user@webserver.com mkdir -p ~\/.ssh chmod [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-website"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/public-private-keys.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21047"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21054,"href":"https:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21047\/revisions\/21054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}