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Connect Server Using Terminal & SSH

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Using terminal we are going to establish a remote connection to a Remote Server like (Droplet, E2C or any cloud vm).

If you are using Linux or Mac you are good to go but in windows you should download git-bash.

1) Now to generate your SSH key type his commends in your terminal.

It's better to generate SSH keys inside .ssh folder


ssh-keygen

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2) Now name your key

you can name your key what ever suits for you

3) Don't need any passphrase

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We have generated two files public key & private key

  • public key - Used by the Server

  • private key - Used by the Client

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4) Open the public key files


cat ur-key-name.pub

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We need to provide our public key to the remote server by opening it in terminal and copy the phrase.

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5) To establish connection between client with server


ssh -i ./droplet-ssh-key root@157.245.104.56

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Abbreviation: ssh -i keyfile target_machineusername@host

What's the meaning of -i in ssh?

By providing the private keyfile and our server username and ip address we are opening a connection between client and server

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If you see the above message we have successfully connected our client with the server

Bonus

You can check your system specification with this commends


free -h


df -h


lscpu

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To terminate the session enter exit in terminal.

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