SSH public key authentication: Difference between revisions

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 Now the public key is stored on the <code>servermachine</code> in <code>/home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys</code>
-Note: On the <code>clientmachine</code>, we created the public key file in the non-standard path <code>~/.ssh/servermachine</code>, so later we must use <code>ssh -i ~/.ssh/servermachine servermachine</code> to send our public key.
+On the <code>clientmachine</code>, we stored the key file in the non-standard path <code>~/.ssh/servermachine</code>, so we must tell the SSH client to use the key file:
-Now we must tell the SSH client to send the public key:
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 The connection should work without password.
-To make the SSH client automatically use the public key file, we add this to <code>/home/user/.ssh/config</code>:
+To make the SSH client automatically use the key file, we add this to <code>/home/user/.ssh/config</code>:
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