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- Select: Type of key to generate: SSH-2 RSA
- Fill in: Number of bits in a generated key: 4096
- Press: Generate
- Fill in: your key passphrase
- Fill in: confirm your passphrase
- copy the shown public key to a file somewhere for uploadingnew textfile for upload to HLRN
(don't use "Save public key" for upload to HLRN, wrong formatting here) - Press: Save private key
- Please remember the path name where you saved your SSH key files!
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PuTTY changed its default key file format in version 0.75 from PPK2 to PPK3. This is not an issue as long as you use a PuTTY version, or software using PuTTy in its core, greater 0.75 |
SSH Public Key Upload
Before you can log in to one of the HLRN login nodes, you first have to upload your SSH public key (not the private one) at the HLRN Service Portal. There you can also perform other administrative tasks like displaying or removing (public) keys.
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