Beginners • Re: Imager SSH public-key authentication next steps

Don't use putty, but the openssh client that comes with Windows/OSX/Linux

- Open a windows command prompt.
- Enter "ssh name-of-your-pi.local"
- You're in

I'm currently away from my house. I could VPN in, but based on what you're saying, that won't help since SSH-KEYGEN must automatically store the public/private keys on the machine which generated them (which was my desktop). So, I'll try it when I get home.

From a previous RPi image session, I was able to find the C:/User/<myusername>/.ssh folder which contains an id_rsa and id_rsa.pub files. Is the file without the extension the private key? Could this be shared to any other machine if I want them to also be able to login via SSH then?

Statistics: Posted by afgoody — Sun Dec 08, 2024 1:10 pm

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