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Adding Public/Private Key Pairs on Mac OS X and Ubuntu for Passwordless Remote SSH Sessions

On your local machine cd into the .ssh directory in your home “~/” directory. If it doesn’t exist you can create it with “mkdir ~/.ssh”. Next generate your public/private keys and copy the public key to the remote server. cd ~/.ssh ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 # will take a couple seconds but when finished # specify a [...]
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OpenSSL Certificate Generation Information for Certificate Authority to Serve Traffic Over Https

apt-get install openssl openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024 openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr You’ll be prompted to enter a password (don’t forget it!) as well as fill in company identity information. The most important part is the common name, which is actually the domain you are requesting the certificate for. If you’re going without a [...]
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