Hi dos2unix!
I really would like to thank you a lot for your thorough reply. I finally got the connection to work using the public and private keys!
Actually my mistake was really dumb (as it is often the case).
I actually had forgotten to copy the "begin private key" and "end private key"...
Hello everyone,
I am trying to setup my first ever Linux server so as to use it to host the calls between the members of my family using Jitsi.
I am trying to do this using Ubuntu server. Maybe it's a bad idea/distro, if you think so feel free to tell me, I'm totally new to Linux.
It is running...
Hello everyone,
I'm trying to set up my first ubuntu server so as to be able to SSH into it remotely using a private key.
I have made it generate a private key using
sudo ssh-keygen
Then I assigned this key to my user account (which is a linux admin but not root)
sudo ssh-copy-id...