SSH Key Pair Creation ( Unravel OCI Part 1 - Post 2)
Practices for SSH Keys Creation 1. First you shall create an SSH key using the Linux VM you have on your computer. The purpose of SSH keys is to provide a Secure Connection to the compute instance. You can also look at the video on Youtube - https://youtu.be/2HnJFOMewJE to understand about SSH Key pair. 2. An SSH Key pair is a unique combination of Public Key and Private key, used to secure the ssh communication between a client and server. The Public Key is uploaded to the Server and the Private Key is used to connect to the server from a client. 3. Login to the Linux VM as the oracle user ( password - oracle) Right click on the Linux VM desktop and click on Open Terminal 4. In the terminal check your current directory using pwd command as given in the screenshot below. 5. Now create a key with the following command 6. If you already have a pair of SSH keys, you can use that also, you don’t need to generate the keys, but its recommended to create it to mak...