IT:AD:SSH-KEYGEN:HowTo:Share the Public Key

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See also:
- IT:AD:SSH-ADD

Summary

So you just used IT:AD:SSH-KEYGEN to generate two new key files within your %userprofile%\.ssh\ directory:


C:\Users\Svc-CI\.ssh>dir
01/04/2016  10:51 PM               114 config
01/04/2016  10:47 PM             1,675 XACT-SRV-10_SVC-CI_BitBucket_rsa
01/04/2016  10:47 PM               404 XACT-SRV-10_SVC-CI_BitBucket_rsa.pub
C:\Users\Svc-CI\.ssh>

That's a good start – but there are more steps you have to do before you can actually use the keys.

The first thing you have to do is take the public key (the contents of the *.pub file), and upload/register it with the remote service you want to communicate with.

The process by which you get the .pub file's contents up to the remote service will vary depending on which service we are talking about – but here's an example of the process:

IT:AD:BitBucket:HowTo:Register an SSH Key

Once that step completed, the next step of the Process is to use IT:AD:SSH-ADD