How To generate a pair of keys for ssh

first of all you need to generate the keys. It’s really simple:

ssh-keygen -t rsa

Answer always yes to all of the questions

if you go in .ssh directory and type ls

cd .ssh
ls

you can see something like that:

id_rsa  id_rsa.pub

Now you have to add the public key to the file authorized_keys

cat id_rsa.pub >> authorized_keys

Move your private key into your PC:

scp debian@DOMAIN.eu://home/debian/.ssh/id_rsa .

Finally move the private key under ssh

mv id_rsa .ssh/