[user@l01 ~] $ ssh-keygen Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/home/lv70XXX/user/.ssh/id_rsa): Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): Enter same passphrase again: Your identification has been saved in /home/lv70XXX/user/.ssh/id_rsa. Your public key has been saved in /home/lv70XXX/user/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. The key fingerprint is: 85:d3:de:15:58:d0:78:8d:03:a6:ca:de:6e:58:c3:21 testuser@l01 The key's randomart image is: +--[ RSA 2048]----+ | +Boo | | o oo =..| | o + ... | | .E=.. . | | So... | | . .+ | | .o.. | | ... | | .. | +-----------------+ [user@l01 ~] $ ls -al .ssh total 16 drwxr-xr-x 2 user sysadmin 4096 Sep 11 12:07 . drwxr-x--- 60 user sysadmin 4096 Sep 11 12:07 .. -rw------- 1 user sysadmin 1675 Sep 11 12:07 id_rsa -rw-r--r-- 1 user sysadmin 394 Sep 11 12:07 id_rsa.pub [user@l01 ~] $ cd .ssh [user@l01 ~/.ssh] $ cat id_rsa.pub > authorized_keys [user@l01 ~/.ssh] $ chmod 600 authorized_keys