Generating an SSH key to log into a target machine

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Use ssh-keygen to create a set of secure RSA keys, public and private, on your own machine

Note the location of the private key

Copy the public key

SSH into the target machine

Paste public key into ~/.ssh/authorized_users

[sudo] nano ~/.ssh/authorized_users
May require sudoers privilege

SSH into the target machine using the private key on your machine:

ssh -i /path/to/private/key user@remotehost