Lab 1 – Setting Up SSH Access

Objective

  • generate a SSH key or use an existing one
  • add the SSH key to the lab
  • test SSH to Linux instances in lab

Task – Add a SSH Key to the Lab

After logging into UDF, navigate to your preferences by clicking on the icon in the top right and then clicking Preferences

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On the next page click the Create SSH Key button

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Copy and paste your SSH public key into the field provided.

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On MacOS you can run the following commands to generate a new key:

ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/agility

After following the prompts dump the contents of the public key file.

cat ~/.ssh/agility.pub

Copy and paste that into the Create SSH Key window in the field labled Key as shown in the image above and then click Save

Try connecting via SSH to the External Jump Host by navigating to the Components tab and using the Access dropdown in the External Jump Host box under the Systems column where you can click on the SSH option.

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You should be promted to open the connection using the default SSH application such as Terminal or iTerm on MacOS and putty on Windows.