Saturday, 28 November 2009

Webfaction + ssh key

Step by step instruction:
Local:
cd ~/.ssh/
ssh-keygen -t dsa
name_of_your_new_key
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vim config
Add:

  • Host webfaction
  • Port 22
  • User your_login
  • IdentityFile path_to_your_key_file eg. /home/username/.ssh/key_name
sudo vim /etc/hosts
Add:
  • server_ip webfaction
scp key_name your_login@your_login.webfactional.com/home/your_login/ [type_password]
On server:
mkdir .ssh
cat key_name >> .ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 701 ~/
chmod 700 ~/.ssh
chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys
and voila, now you can login to webfaction with: ssh webfaction
I hope it will help someone

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