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        Uploading Your Public Key
            Manually Copying the Key File
            Manually Editing the Authorization File
        Using Public-Key Authentication
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Uploading Your Public Key

If you want to use public-key authentication when connecting to the remote host computer, you have to upload your public key to the host. If you have not yet generated your own public key, see section Key Generation.

Public keys can be uploaded automatically to a server. After a connection has been made to a remote host, a User Keypair can be selected from the User Keys settings screen. Clicking on the Upload Public Key button will display the dialog box below before automatically uploading the public key to the specified directory and adding an entry for it to the authorization file.

If you do not use the automatic upload facility, you will need to place your public key file in the .ssh2 subdirectory in your home directory on the remote host computer. The authorization file residing in the .ssh2 directory must be edited to take the newly transferred key into use.


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Figure : The Upload Public Key dialog.

  • Destination Folder

    This is the subdirectory on the server where the public key file will be uploaded to. If this directory does not exist then it will be created under your home directory on the server. e.g. ~username/.ssh2. The default value is .ssh2

  • Authorization File

    This is the file on the server that contains details of your public keys. If this file does not exist then it will be created. The default value is authorization.

  • View Authorization File

    Checking this box will allow you to view and edit the authorization file before it is uploaded to the server.

Manually Copying the Key File

Manually Editing the Authorization File

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