Use SSH Like a PRO!

SSH is a tool Linux users rely on every day. But setting up public/private keypairs for authentication can be confusing. Especially when you add the option of using passphrases or not.

In this video we learn to create and install keypairs, plus learn our options when it comes to protecting our private key while STILL being able to use it in scripts and tools that can't prompt for passwords.

#linux #SSH #security

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[MrMehi-hwmq]

good to get that notification, awesome tutorial. The weird thing is even though I know all of it, it is really exciting to watch the entire videos :D

[disperatorul]

Very enjoyable to watch and learn, thanks! Another idea: how to enable https for home lab lan without having a public domain.

[teamvigod]

Great stuff. Better understand SSH-AGENT now. Never saw the backtick trick. Nice 🙂

[steele_ntwrk]

Great video Shaun! I am setting up NAPALM for netbox and was struggling to understand a article on how to setup the SSH part... but it makes sense now :D

[dewbiedew]

I knew you can do the eval to set this up, but it never occurred to me that I can copy and paste the export statements to all my terminals. Now I am not "stuck" with that specific terminal. Thanks for this video!

[jonathanbarker]

Yeah, that definitely filled in gaps in my knowledge about SSH-Agent. I've been meaning to setup keypairs for my proxmox server.

[JosephNetworld-wiby]

Thank you so much for this video tutorial

[lumavey]

Finally found the time to digest this video, thanks Shaun.... Just implemented this on my proxmox server 🙂 moving between servers is now a breeze

[armantahery]

it was a great video for beginners like me

[ahmedw]

In the recent interview i had for a junior linux sysadmin position one of the tests they gave me was configure ssh rsa login for a user in linux. They allowed me to google so i managed but it took time. I wish i had watched this before.

[Moneythemax]

Can you disable the password function for accounts that have a key pair or force the system to only allow a key pair log in for all user accounts?

[mustafa.]

Hello Shawn, thank you for this amazing video first, i just had an issue when i try to connect to to the remote(tast2) so when i typed ssh test2 it gave me this error "ssh : could not resolve hostname rocky: name or service not know"
what i think is that i must edit the host file so i can define ip=machine so i can reference it with user only instead of ip
if am correct in this how i can manage to do that?
sorry in advance if my English is so bad (it's my second language) كل الحب ❤

[theevila]

Is there any way to protect the ssh port using an internal vpn on the server that only the ssh is local and through the vpn one is the only one that has access to that port

[damianpodgorski]

Hi Shawn, I am following along with you, does it work with a virtual machine installed on top of my linux mint computer? It errors out when I try to copy the key ERRORL ssh: connect to host (hostname) port 22: Connection refused

[YasharImanlou]

A few years ago I was hand overing a windows network with an only one Linux server to a new administrator that had no experience with Linux. Poor guy was in shock the whole day when he asked for SSH password and I told him that it doesn't have any & you should use a key to login, cause he though it was a security flaw! 😅

[ImZaDi-love]

Or you can have an encrypted home folder.