HowTo Create SSH Keys

[crayon-69a3ad4f193c7348759074/] You can press enter here, saving the file to the user home (in this case, my example user is called demo). [crayon-69a3ad4f193cc063667601/] Press enter if you want a password-less key or type your password: [crayon-69a3ad4f193cf540682675/]   Copy you ssh key to your VPS (non-root user): It will ask for your password [crayon-69a3ad4f193d0242521818/]   Copy you ssh key to your VPS (root user): Login with your non-root user, become root (sudo su) and copy/paste your ssh public key (ex. id_rsa.pub) in /root/.ssh/authorized_keys. Step 1: [crayon-69a3ad4f193d2934237156/] Step 2: [crayon-69a3ad4f193d3805622001/] Step 3 (optional): if the .ssh directory doesn't exist, create it [crayon-69a3ad4f193d4304217875/] Step 4: Paste your public key (ex. id_rsa.pub) in authorized_keys [crayon-69a3ad4f193d5374159504/]  
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