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<p>'ssh' is 'secure shell' and is widely used for secure access to machines and services.</p>
<h2>What do I need to do?</h2>
<p>You will need to <tt>ssh-keygen</tt> a key on your device, email the public key to someone who already has ssh access (Wookey, Paul Fox, Philip Sargent, Sam Wenham..). Once installed by them you should be able to log in as 'expo' over ssh (and other software like tortoise will also use this behind the scenes). This only needs doing once (for any machine you want access from).</p>
<p>You will need to run ssh-keygen/PuTTYgen on your device, email the public key to someone who already has ssh access (Wookey, Paul Fox, Philip Sargent, Sam Wenham). Once installed by them you should be able to log in as 'expo' over ssh (and other software like tortoise will also use this behind the scenes). This only needs doing once (for any machine you want access from).</p>
<p>Explanation of how <a href="https://www.ssh.com/ssh/keygen/">ssh keys</a> work.</p>
<p>A public key file looks like this: <tt>ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEApc9+PAMrDtWa8D8/ZneLP2X9UOYmTITAhTd2DRs8SE+N
Dgis5pYo/Xhtbrg86ePMAC2YM5xAkYx3jNA/VZ/PkB3gTzYJW3T/zTH+cc7YeWhy9l1zIMaYqeyvw7Fx
eSBaR4XoLPVtVUlai8DUDiWAEm7VvOKj1n68z1LxVh1MZXLm7btckf6fske2YU9UpjqT++AURQvFheRJ
4la7KBJ7LXZ3A/TQ7HQaTpqmcQKCiRj/yZ5FNHxBk0M+ShbHUtz1GhXRCMJ3LZHaw24OJyVJ8YNzBiSt
Bb1qcWCXX7HR9CUNhz7tA5HZyc1lau/1vwk8MSe93lyyLntzJKkqmkW/cQ== wookey@kh</tt>, i.e. a long string of characters with 'ssh-rsa' at the start and a 'user'@'machine' ID at the end.</p>
<p>A public key file looks like this: <tt>ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEApc9+PAMrDtWa8D8/ZneLP2X9UOYmTITAhTd2DRs8SE+NDgis5pYo/Xhtbrg86ePMAC2YM5xAkYx3jNA/VZ/PkB3gTzYJW3T/zTH+cc7YeWhy9l1zIMaYqeyvw7FxeSBaR4XoLPVtVUlai8DUDiWAEm7VvOKj1n68z1LxVh1MZXLm7btckf6fske2YU9UpjqT++AURQvFheRJ4la7KBJ7LXZ3A/TQ7HQaTpqmcQKCiRj/yZ5FNHxBk0M+ShbHUtz1GhXRCMJ3LZHaw24OJyVJ8YNzBiStBb1qcWCXX7HR9CUNhz7tA5HZyc1lau/1vwk8MSe93lyyLntzJKkqmkW/cQ== wookey@kh</tt>i.e. a long string of characters with 'ssh-rsa' at the start and a 'user'@'machine' ID at the end.</p>
<h3>Windows</h3>
<p>On a Windows machine use
<a href=h"ttps://www.ssh.com/ssh/putty/windows/puttygen">puttygen</a>, which is part of <a href="https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html">PuTTY<a/>. You need to install that if you don't already have it.</p>
<p>Follow the Puttygen instructions, but the reqlly short version is:
<a href=h"ttps://www.ssh.com/ssh/putty/windows/puttygen">puttygen</a>, which is part of <a href="https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html">PuTTY</a>. You need to install that if you don't already have it.</p>
<p>Follow the Puttygen instructions, but the really short version is:
<li>Run PuTTYgen</li>
<li>Click on 'Generate'. Follow the instructions. Don't bother adding a passphrase.</li>
<li>Save the key</li>