ssh

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Processes

New keys are generated with ssh-keygen. ssh interacts with keys via ssh-agent, which needs to have keys registered with it using ssh-add before it can use them.

Related

• keyed login: enable logging in from a specific remote client with no password (useful for scripts)
• ssh-add: manages keys for the ssh-agent
• ssh-agent: background process used by ssh
• ssh-keygen: creates new keys
• sshfs: a filesystem for mounting remote folders via ssh

How-to

To break a dead connection and get back to a local prompt, try [ENTER]~. or (in MATE Terminal, at least) Terminal->Reset.

Links

Reference

• Wikipedia

How-to

• Generating a new SSH key and adding it to the ssh-agent (see also ssh-keygen, ssh-agent)
• Checking for existing SSH keys: note that a key may exist without ssh being able to use it; keys must be registered through ssh-add so that they can be used.
• 2015-10-05 SSH timeout prevention – keep SSH sessions alive