Accessing by SSH Public Key Authentication

Quick notes for an already well documented method. From a *nix based machine (my iMac while writing this).

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C “me@emailaddress.com”

Choose an id filename – on this instance I set: id_rsademo

ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsademo me@192.168.0.1

The connection is to the machine on its ip address – this simply has to be able to resolve so it can use DNS

A good write-up is available here: https://www.ssh.com/ssh/copy-id

12th March

On this day in 1994 – a Saturday – my wee brother Craig set off for a football match in Motherwell. He was a Hibs fan.

He did not pass away that day but he never made it to the match. I don’t think he ever knew the outcome of the match. He was a passenger in a car which crashed on the way to the game. He died over a year later never really recovering from the catastrophic brain injuries he suffered.

He was twenty six when the crash happened. One other friend died in the accident that day. Another survived but he was driving. He was left with the crushing weight of losing a friend and a member of his family.

The result was a 0 – 0 draw. I suspect it wasn’t that much of a match. I never knew the score until I looked it up today. I suddenly felt curious.

Rest in peace kiddo.