[ubuntu-studio-devel] SSH key generation, WAS: Re: wily in gedit bottom of page appears and disappears

[Grant Frank Burton]

ok I get it I need to write the path too when I write the name.....

Sorry to trouble you for nothing.........

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Grant Frank Burton <bbbabynet at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think because of that gtk2 - gtk3.16 stuff in the Terminal Emulator I
> don't know it's just a guess.
>
> I notice some Terminal Emulator have gtk but the one that installs with
> studio don't.
>
> so here's what I did
>
> >>
> grant at grant-EJ215AA-ABE-w5230-es:~$  ssh-keygen -t rsa
> Generating public/private rsa key pair.
> Enter file in which to save the key (/home/grant/.ssh/id_rsa): id_rsa
> Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
> Enter same passphrase again:
> Your identification has been saved in id_rsa.
> Your public key has been saved in id_rsa.pub.
> The key fingerprint is:
> 41:42:80:35:ae:37:e8:84:ca:0b:34:69:f3:50:b5:ba
> grant at grant-EJ215AA-ABE-w5230-es
> The key's randomart image is:
> +---[RSA 2048]----+
> |   o++o .        |
> |  .....o         |
> |   ...  .        |
> | .oo.    .       |
> |.B+.o   S        |
> |=o=...           |
> |o..E             |
> |. .              |
> | .               |
> +-----------------+
> grant at grant-EJ215AA-ABE-w5230-es:~$
> >>>
>
> there is nothing in (/home/grant/.ssh/) just an empty folder. The files
> are in (/home/grant/)
>
> so I guess I need to move the file into that folder to have a ssh right?
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Kaj Ailomaa <zequence at mousike.me> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2015, at 08:40 AM, Grant Frank Burton wrote:
>> > ok Thanks Guys for the fix and explaining why..... ok then.... could it
>> > be
>> > possible that.....
>> >
>> > >***********************************
>> > Create a SSH Key
>> >
>> >
>> > $ sudo apt-get install openssh-client
>> >
>> > To create a SSH key in a terminal:
>> >
>> >
>> > $ ssh-keygen -t rsa
>> > You can now find your keys in ~/.ssh/
>> > >******************************************
>> >
>> > When I do that the file is in my home directory and there is no ~/.ssh/
>> > directory.
>> >
>>
>> How is this related to gedit?
>>
>> If you run the command:
>>
>>    ssh-keygen -t rsa
>>
>> ..the first option you will see is is:
>>
>>   Generating public/private rsa key pair.
>>   Enter file in which to save the key (/home/<usernamse>/.ssh/id_rsa):
>>
>> I guess you chaned the path to something else. The simplest way to use
>> the key is to name it exactly that. This will ensure things work
>> automatically - otherwise you mayl have to manually add the path to the
>> key when you use the ssh client application.
>> It's enough just to rename the keys to id_rsa and id_rsa.pub, and put
>> them in ~/.ssh, or rerun the command.
>>
>> /Kaj
>>
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