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How to install public key in host windows server 2012



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My user from another server gave his public key to me and asked me to install this public key into my server so he can connect to my server. Did some research and I have to create a directory called .ssh and paste my user public key in a Notepad and save this text file into the .ssh directory. My question is does my research correct if so where and how I create this .ssh directory and the key file, is it in text file format? Do I have to pass any information like my key to the user? I’m using Windows Server 2012.










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    If the user is already a user on your server (has password authentication working), he/she can setup the public key on his/her own.

    – Martin Prikryl
    yesterday











  • What OS are you using?

    – Dave X
    yesterday











  • ... can do this on their own ... using ssh-copy-id for instance.

    – Bernhard Döbler
    yesterday











  • I’m using windows server 2012 @Dave X

    – xChaax
    yesterday











  • As a client or as a server?

    – Martin Prikryl
    19 hours ago

















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My user from another server gave his public key to me and asked me to install this public key into my server so he can connect to my server. Did some research and I have to create a directory called .ssh and paste my user public key in a Notepad and save this text file into the .ssh directory. My question is does my research correct if so where and how I create this .ssh directory and the key file, is it in text file format? Do I have to pass any information like my key to the user? I’m using Windows Server 2012.










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  • 4





    If the user is already a user on your server (has password authentication working), he/she can setup the public key on his/her own.

    – Martin Prikryl
    yesterday











  • What OS are you using?

    – Dave X
    yesterday











  • ... can do this on their own ... using ssh-copy-id for instance.

    – Bernhard Döbler
    yesterday











  • I’m using windows server 2012 @Dave X

    – xChaax
    yesterday











  • As a client or as a server?

    – Martin Prikryl
    19 hours ago













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My user from another server gave his public key to me and asked me to install this public key into my server so he can connect to my server. Did some research and I have to create a directory called .ssh and paste my user public key in a Notepad and save this text file into the .ssh directory. My question is does my research correct if so where and how I create this .ssh directory and the key file, is it in text file format? Do I have to pass any information like my key to the user? I’m using Windows Server 2012.










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My user from another server gave his public key to me and asked me to install this public key into my server so he can connect to my server. Did some research and I have to create a directory called .ssh and paste my user public key in a Notepad and save this text file into the .ssh directory. My question is does my research correct if so where and how I create this .ssh directory and the key file, is it in text file format? Do I have to pass any information like my key to the user? I’m using Windows Server 2012.







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  • 4





    If the user is already a user on your server (has password authentication working), he/she can setup the public key on his/her own.

    – Martin Prikryl
    yesterday











  • What OS are you using?

    – Dave X
    yesterday











  • ... can do this on their own ... using ssh-copy-id for instance.

    – Bernhard Döbler
    yesterday











  • I’m using windows server 2012 @Dave X

    – xChaax
    yesterday











  • As a client or as a server?

    – Martin Prikryl
    19 hours ago












  • 4





    If the user is already a user on your server (has password authentication working), he/she can setup the public key on his/her own.

    – Martin Prikryl
    yesterday











  • What OS are you using?

    – Dave X
    yesterday











  • ... can do this on their own ... using ssh-copy-id for instance.

    – Bernhard Döbler
    yesterday











  • I’m using windows server 2012 @Dave X

    – xChaax
    yesterday











  • As a client or as a server?

    – Martin Prikryl
    19 hours ago







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4





If the user is already a user on your server (has password authentication working), he/she can setup the public key on his/her own.

– Martin Prikryl
yesterday





If the user is already a user on your server (has password authentication working), he/she can setup the public key on his/her own.

– Martin Prikryl
yesterday













What OS are you using?

– Dave X
yesterday





What OS are you using?

– Dave X
yesterday













... can do this on their own ... using ssh-copy-id for instance.

– Bernhard Döbler
yesterday





... can do this on their own ... using ssh-copy-id for instance.

– Bernhard Döbler
yesterday













I’m using windows server 2012 @Dave X

– xChaax
yesterday





I’m using windows server 2012 @Dave X

– xChaax
yesterday













As a client or as a server?

– Martin Prikryl
19 hours ago





As a client or as a server?

– Martin Prikryl
19 hours ago










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  • The public key must go into authorized_keys file (not just to some text file) in the .ssh subfolder of user's home directory.


  • The public key entry must have a correct format like:



    ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAIEAir2cIHsAFg8QzLF6Yb... some optional comment


  • The authorized_keys file must use *nix line endings, what Notepad cannot do (so make sure your SFTP/FTP client uses ASCII transfer mode to convert the line endings)


  • The .ssh folder needs to have 700 permissions and the authorized_keys needs to have 600 permissions.

There are zillions of guides on the Internet that cover the above.

For example see my guide to Setting up SSH public key authentication in OpenSSH.




If the user is already a user on your server (has password [or other] authentication working), he/she can setup the public key on his/her own.



  • On *nix machines (or others that have OpenSSH available, what may include Windows), you can use ssh-copy-id script.

  • On Windows machines, you can use (my) WinSCP, with its Install Public Key into Server function.

See also my answer to Setting up public key authentication to Linux server from Windows (ppk private key).




You should provide your user a copy of the server's public host key, so that the user can verify it, when connecting for the first time (it's a separate from the authentication, what the rest of the question is about). Though many users just blindly accept the host key.






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  • Does it matter what directory for .ssh folder ? If does, what directory is home directory? And what is the format for authorized_keys file ?

    – xChaax
    yesterday











  • See my updated answer.

    – Martin Prikryl
    yesterday






  • 5





    More generally, the public key must go in whatever file is specified as AuthorizedKeysFile in sshd_config, which by default is ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

    – user4556274
    yesterday











  • It's a bit of a sloppy hack, but on new machines I generally run a 'ssh-keygen' to create the ~/.ssh/ directory in the proper place with the proper permissions, and then copy keys into the authorized_keys file.

    – Dave X
    22 hours ago











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  • The public key must go into authorized_keys file (not just to some text file) in the .ssh subfolder of user's home directory.


  • The public key entry must have a correct format like:



    ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAIEAir2cIHsAFg8QzLF6Yb... some optional comment


  • The authorized_keys file must use *nix line endings, what Notepad cannot do (so make sure your SFTP/FTP client uses ASCII transfer mode to convert the line endings)


  • The .ssh folder needs to have 700 permissions and the authorized_keys needs to have 600 permissions.

There are zillions of guides on the Internet that cover the above.

For example see my guide to Setting up SSH public key authentication in OpenSSH.




If the user is already a user on your server (has password [or other] authentication working), he/she can setup the public key on his/her own.



  • On *nix machines (or others that have OpenSSH available, what may include Windows), you can use ssh-copy-id script.

  • On Windows machines, you can use (my) WinSCP, with its Install Public Key into Server function.

See also my answer to Setting up public key authentication to Linux server from Windows (ppk private key).




You should provide your user a copy of the server's public host key, so that the user can verify it, when connecting for the first time (it's a separate from the authentication, what the rest of the question is about). Though many users just blindly accept the host key.






share|improve this answer

























  • Does it matter what directory for .ssh folder ? If does, what directory is home directory? And what is the format for authorized_keys file ?

    – xChaax
    yesterday











  • See my updated answer.

    – Martin Prikryl
    yesterday






  • 5





    More generally, the public key must go in whatever file is specified as AuthorizedKeysFile in sshd_config, which by default is ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

    – user4556274
    yesterday











  • It's a bit of a sloppy hack, but on new machines I generally run a 'ssh-keygen' to create the ~/.ssh/ directory in the proper place with the proper permissions, and then copy keys into the authorized_keys file.

    – Dave X
    22 hours ago















12














  • The public key must go into authorized_keys file (not just to some text file) in the .ssh subfolder of user's home directory.


  • The public key entry must have a correct format like:



    ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAIEAir2cIHsAFg8QzLF6Yb... some optional comment


  • The authorized_keys file must use *nix line endings, what Notepad cannot do (so make sure your SFTP/FTP client uses ASCII transfer mode to convert the line endings)


  • The .ssh folder needs to have 700 permissions and the authorized_keys needs to have 600 permissions.

There are zillions of guides on the Internet that cover the above.

For example see my guide to Setting up SSH public key authentication in OpenSSH.




If the user is already a user on your server (has password [or other] authentication working), he/she can setup the public key on his/her own.



  • On *nix machines (or others that have OpenSSH available, what may include Windows), you can use ssh-copy-id script.

  • On Windows machines, you can use (my) WinSCP, with its Install Public Key into Server function.

See also my answer to Setting up public key authentication to Linux server from Windows (ppk private key).




You should provide your user a copy of the server's public host key, so that the user can verify it, when connecting for the first time (it's a separate from the authentication, what the rest of the question is about). Though many users just blindly accept the host key.






share|improve this answer

























  • Does it matter what directory for .ssh folder ? If does, what directory is home directory? And what is the format for authorized_keys file ?

    – xChaax
    yesterday











  • See my updated answer.

    – Martin Prikryl
    yesterday






  • 5





    More generally, the public key must go in whatever file is specified as AuthorizedKeysFile in sshd_config, which by default is ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

    – user4556274
    yesterday











  • It's a bit of a sloppy hack, but on new machines I generally run a 'ssh-keygen' to create the ~/.ssh/ directory in the proper place with the proper permissions, and then copy keys into the authorized_keys file.

    – Dave X
    22 hours ago













12












12








12







  • The public key must go into authorized_keys file (not just to some text file) in the .ssh subfolder of user's home directory.


  • The public key entry must have a correct format like:



    ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAIEAir2cIHsAFg8QzLF6Yb... some optional comment


  • The authorized_keys file must use *nix line endings, what Notepad cannot do (so make sure your SFTP/FTP client uses ASCII transfer mode to convert the line endings)


  • The .ssh folder needs to have 700 permissions and the authorized_keys needs to have 600 permissions.

There are zillions of guides on the Internet that cover the above.

For example see my guide to Setting up SSH public key authentication in OpenSSH.




If the user is already a user on your server (has password [or other] authentication working), he/she can setup the public key on his/her own.



  • On *nix machines (or others that have OpenSSH available, what may include Windows), you can use ssh-copy-id script.

  • On Windows machines, you can use (my) WinSCP, with its Install Public Key into Server function.

See also my answer to Setting up public key authentication to Linux server from Windows (ppk private key).




You should provide your user a copy of the server's public host key, so that the user can verify it, when connecting for the first time (it's a separate from the authentication, what the rest of the question is about). Though many users just blindly accept the host key.






share|improve this answer















  • The public key must go into authorized_keys file (not just to some text file) in the .ssh subfolder of user's home directory.


  • The public key entry must have a correct format like:



    ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAIEAir2cIHsAFg8QzLF6Yb... some optional comment


  • The authorized_keys file must use *nix line endings, what Notepad cannot do (so make sure your SFTP/FTP client uses ASCII transfer mode to convert the line endings)


  • The .ssh folder needs to have 700 permissions and the authorized_keys needs to have 600 permissions.

There are zillions of guides on the Internet that cover the above.

For example see my guide to Setting up SSH public key authentication in OpenSSH.




If the user is already a user on your server (has password [or other] authentication working), he/she can setup the public key on his/her own.



  • On *nix machines (or others that have OpenSSH available, what may include Windows), you can use ssh-copy-id script.

  • On Windows machines, you can use (my) WinSCP, with its Install Public Key into Server function.

See also my answer to Setting up public key authentication to Linux server from Windows (ppk private key).




You should provide your user a copy of the server's public host key, so that the user can verify it, when connecting for the first time (it's a separate from the authentication, what the rest of the question is about). Though many users just blindly accept the host key.







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  • Does it matter what directory for .ssh folder ? If does, what directory is home directory? And what is the format for authorized_keys file ?

    – xChaax
    yesterday











  • See my updated answer.

    – Martin Prikryl
    yesterday






  • 5





    More generally, the public key must go in whatever file is specified as AuthorizedKeysFile in sshd_config, which by default is ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

    – user4556274
    yesterday











  • It's a bit of a sloppy hack, but on new machines I generally run a 'ssh-keygen' to create the ~/.ssh/ directory in the proper place with the proper permissions, and then copy keys into the authorized_keys file.

    – Dave X
    22 hours ago

















  • Does it matter what directory for .ssh folder ? If does, what directory is home directory? And what is the format for authorized_keys file ?

    – xChaax
    yesterday











  • See my updated answer.

    – Martin Prikryl
    yesterday






  • 5





    More generally, the public key must go in whatever file is specified as AuthorizedKeysFile in sshd_config, which by default is ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

    – user4556274
    yesterday











  • It's a bit of a sloppy hack, but on new machines I generally run a 'ssh-keygen' to create the ~/.ssh/ directory in the proper place with the proper permissions, and then copy keys into the authorized_keys file.

    – Dave X
    22 hours ago
















Does it matter what directory for .ssh folder ? If does, what directory is home directory? And what is the format for authorized_keys file ?

– xChaax
yesterday





Does it matter what directory for .ssh folder ? If does, what directory is home directory? And what is the format for authorized_keys file ?

– xChaax
yesterday













See my updated answer.

– Martin Prikryl
yesterday





See my updated answer.

– Martin Prikryl
yesterday




5




5





More generally, the public key must go in whatever file is specified as AuthorizedKeysFile in sshd_config, which by default is ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

– user4556274
yesterday





More generally, the public key must go in whatever file is specified as AuthorizedKeysFile in sshd_config, which by default is ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

– user4556274
yesterday













It's a bit of a sloppy hack, but on new machines I generally run a 'ssh-keygen' to create the ~/.ssh/ directory in the proper place with the proper permissions, and then copy keys into the authorized_keys file.

– Dave X
22 hours ago





It's a bit of a sloppy hack, but on new machines I generally run a 'ssh-keygen' to create the ~/.ssh/ directory in the proper place with the proper permissions, and then copy keys into the authorized_keys file.

– Dave X
22 hours ago










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