| 41 | | (Optional) You'll be making heavy use of your private key to log into your ProtoGENI hosts in the steps below. If your key is encrypted, you may want to load it in a key manager so you don't have to type your passphrase many times. Alternately, you can remove the passphrase from your key using the steps below. (You don't need to do this step, however, you will be prompted for your passphrase quite a few times when following the steps below.) |
| 42 | | |
| 43 | | To remove passphrase (assuming your private key file is '''id_rsa'''): |
| 44 | | {{{ |
| 45 | | mv id_rsa id_rsa.encrypted |
| 46 | | openssl rsa -in id_rsa.encrypted -out id_rsa |
| 47 | | <type your passphrase when prompted> |
| 48 | | chmod 400 id_rsa |
| 49 | | }}} |
| | 41 | (Optional) You'll be making heavy use of your private key to log into your ProtoGENI hosts in the steps below. If your key is encrypted, you might want to take a look at ways for [wiki:HowTo/LoginToNodes#ManagingSSHKeys managing your ssh keys] to make this easier. |
