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+! Creating a new ssh key pair for no-password access to a remote system
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+ wow I just had serious issues with basic ssh usage, so i'll put a summary on the wiki
+    basically most misunderstandings stem from describing these two:
+        client: machine that is trying to ssh into the server
+        server: machine that the client user wants to get to
+    most poor sots are just sitting on the client
+    and they create a pair and push their public key to the server
+    but in my case, more often, i want to create a pair on the server
+    and push the private key to the multiple places i need to connect FROM
+    when doing that, you have to push the public key into the server's authorized_keys
+    and configure the client to juggle multiple private keys
+        create a key pair:
+            ssh suser@server
+            ssh-keygen
+                use defaults
+                will create:
+                    .ssh/id_rsa (private key)
+                    .ssh/id_rsa.pub (public key)
+        put the public key in place:
+            cd .ssh
+            cat id_rsa.pub >>authorized_keys
+        put the private key on the client and configure:
+            scp id_rsa cuser@client:.ssh/id_rsa_server
+            ssh cuser@client
+            em .ssh/config
+                Host tdm thedigitalmachine.com
+                  Hostname thedigitalmachine.com
+                  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
+                  User m
+                Host server
+                  Hostname server.com
+                  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_server
+                  User suser
+    all is full of light
 |}