The SSH public key and private key are needed to set up SFTP.
Use the ssh-keygen command to generate the public and private authentication key
pair. Authentication keys allow a user to connect to a remote system without supplying a password.
The default private and public key files are named id_rsa and
id_rsa.pub respectively in the ~/.ssh directory.
Procedure
-
In a terminal, run the
ssh-keygen command.
- Generate the public/private RSA key pair.
- Specify the directory in which to save the key pair. For example,
/Users/mymac/.ssh/id_rsa...mysftpkey.
- Enter the passphrase. Then, enter the same passphrase again. Enter
empty
if you don't want to use a passphrase.
Using the step 3 example, your identification is saved in the mysftpkey
file, and your public key is saved in the mysftpkey.pub file in the
mysftpkey directory.
Keep the private key safe because you will need it to upload files to your environment. Before
doing so, send the public key to IBM in your onboarding support ticket and the SRE team will place
the public key on the server.
What to do next
Send the public key to IBM in your onboarding support ticket and the SRE team will place the
public key on the server. Keep the private key safe because you will need it to upload files to your
environment.