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Here are use cases that require editing the SSH config file in your Windows user profile. References Syntax reference for the SSH config file is here: https://www.ssh.com/academy/ssh/config Tutorial for creating them: https://betterprogramming.pub/a-step-by...

Here are steps to set the SSH key for a repo checkout. Open File Explorer and navigate to the checkout folder. Right-click the folder, Select TortoiseGit → Settings. From the Settings page, on the left-hand navigation pane, locate the Git node a...

When the GitHub client SSH key expires, any checked out repository must be updated to use the new key. This is because we embed key properties in its name. And with many active repositories checked out for development, updating each one is tedious and error-...

Here are steps to setup the SSH server on an Ubuntu host. Here's a good reference article for how to do what we're doing here: How to Enable SSH on Ubuntu 20.04 Here are the commands to execute: sudo apt update sudo apt install openssh-server sudo ufw all...

Windows IIS requires a pfx file when importing an SSL certificate. This can be created from a crt and a key file using openssl and the following steps. Locate the openssl.exe on your system. It is usually installed as part of git, and located, here:C:\Progra...

Here’s a short list of steps for setting up an SSH server in Ubuntu. Install SSH Server Installing the open ssh server is pretty straightforward on Debian. Run the following to install the service and libraries: sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install opens...

Here’s a short command line statement that will fetch the host ssh key fingerpring without authenticating with it: ssh-keyscan host | ssh-keygen -lf - Here’s another way to clean up ssh host key fingerprints: # remove any old fingerprints for the host ssh-...

General Notes SSH keys can be easily generated in Windows, using PuttyGen. See this article for an update based on obsolete SHA-1 RSA key usage: Ubuntu 22.04 SSH the RSA key isn't working since upgrading from 20.04 Based on the obsolescence of RSA keys in U...

When setting up a new host, you will come across the need to copy SSH keys to it. This is easy to do, before disabling password authentication.But, the command line gyrations to copy a public key to a remote host while simultaneously logging into it with a di...

This page describes a good naming convention for SSH keys, that makes them easier to track, rotate, and revoke. You should use this naming convention for the filename of keys.And as well, use the same convention when populating the the comment field of each k...

Creating an SSH key is straightforward on a linux client, using this command: ssh-keygen By default recent versions of ssh-keygen will create a 3072-bit RSA key pair, which is secure enough for most use cases (you may optionally pass in the -b 4096 flag to c...