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Setup SSH Keys

With the implemenation of two-factor authentication on the ssh protocol at the Observatory, you need to setup two ssh keys to make life easy. These two key are:

  1. To login from your laptop to an Observatory machine
  2. To login between computers at the Observatory

Below we deal with these two cases.

Login from outside the Observatory

Login from the internet is usually done from your own personal computer. Of course that is a MacBook, but for all those 'other system' users we describe belog how to setup a private/public key pair to allow seemless lgon to the Observatory computers.

From Windows

For Windows, you can use putty, MobaXterm or Bitvise Tunnelier to open a terminal session to a Linux desktop or server computer. Below we describe the seutp for each program separately:

From MacOS

From Linux

Login between computers at the Observatory

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