When purchasing AWS servers from us, you will need an SSH public key to place your order and to access your server via our control panel. This article describes how to do this.
The process for creating SSH Public keys is different on Mac OS and Windows. This articles separately describes the steps to take for either operating system.
Mac OS
Step 1 - Create Key Pair
Open Terminal on your Mac
ssh-keygen
This will create an OPENSSH key pair
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/Users/Base/.ssh/id_rsa): ssh-key-1
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in ssh-key-1.
Your public key has been saved in ssh-key-1.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
SHA256:bmp/OfTsaizGbGB8WXC0dwNyWtn/k+vb4s0KFVQzpQk Base@Base Laptop
The key's randomart image is:
+---[RSA 2048]----+
| .o Eo.++|
| . .*.+.oo|
| oo . *. |
| .. . o.|
| . So . o|
| +.o . . o.|
| . =oo +. o|
| .o* * o..+.|
| ..+.+.+..+==|
+----[SHA256]-----+
Step 2 - Convert Private Key to RSA format
ssh-keygen -p -m PEM -f ssh-key-1
This will convert the Private Key to RSA format
Base Laptop: ssh Base$ ssh-keygen -p -m PEM -f ssh-key-1
Enter old passphrase:
Key has comment 'Base@Base Laptop'
Enter new passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved with the new passphrase.
RESULT:
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED
DEK-Info: AES-128-CBC,5E5005DB0F2F88AF471AE1D4AFB18207
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-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
Creating SSH Keys on Windows
- Download and install Git from https://git-scm.com/download/win (Install with all of the default settings, i.e. click Next all the way through with the default options)
- In Windows, press Start+R to launch the Run dialog.
- Type C:\Program Files\Git\bin\bash.exe and press Enter. (This will open the Git Bash shell where you will run the remainder of the commands)
- At the Git Bash command line, change into your preferred directory and type: mkdir .ssh
- To create the key pair, then run: ssh-keygen.exe
- When prompted for a password, type a password to complete the process. When finished, the output looks similar to:
- sh-keygen.exe
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/c/Users/win-key-test/.ssh/id_rsa): /c/Users/win-key-test/.ssh/
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /c/Users/win-key-test/.ssh/
Your public key has been saved in /c/Users/win-key-test/.ssh/
The key fingerprint is:SHA256:jieniOIn20935n0awtn04n002HqEIOnTIOnevHzaI5nak test@keytest
The key's random art image is:
+---[RSA 2048]----+
|*= =+. |
|O*=.B |
|+*o* + |
|o +o. . |
| ooo + S |
| .o.ooo* o |
| .+o+*oo . |
| .=+.. |
| Eo |
+----[SHA256]-----+
$ dir .ssh
id_rsa id_rsa.pub
7. You will then need to convert the key to a PEM format by running the following command: ssh-keygen -p -m PEM -f win-key-test