need help with remote access keys.

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martyb
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all the information i have seen on using remote access keys has you generate the key on your local machine and copy it to the remote server.

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inmotion hosting provides you a key via WHM console and i'm not sure where to place the information on my local server. I want to set this up on my ubuntu server.
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jamesr
Thank you for your question martyb! If you are generating an SSH key, then you can generate an RSA SSH key public/private pair. The SSH key pair can be generated in WHM, which writes the 2 files in the user's ~/.ssh/ directory. You then place the private key, from that directory, on the client computer and the public key on the server in the user's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file. For generating a WHM access hash, you will need to login into WHM as root and go to Remote Access Hash. It is displayed there. You can click to generate a new one if needed. That hash is used to connect remotely to WHM. Best regards, James R