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Thread: Uploading Public-Key to cPanel
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10-11-2018, 10:07 PM #1Junior Guru
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Uploading Public-Key to cPanel
After creating a key-pair on my local computer, I logged into cPanel on my VPS and went to SSH Access.
Under the heading "Import SSH Key", is a webform asking for...
- Choose a name for this key
- Paste the private key into the following text box
- Passphrase
- Paste the public key into the following text box
Questions:
1.) If I choose something like "company1_id_rsa", will that break anything? (I know that if I did something similar for the private-key, then it impacts the command you type in to SSH into your server!)
2.) Does cPanel take that form data and create - in my case - the public key (e.g. "company1_id_rsa.pub"), and then store it on my VPS at /etc/ssh/ ??
3.) After saving this form, does cPanel then also store my Public-Key into the "authorized_keys" file? Or does it instead just store the Public-Key's "Fingerprint" in "authorized_keys" instead?
4.) What typically would be the file path to the "authorized_keys" file located on my VPS?
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