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« Last post by dogmush on Today at 02:31:31 PM »
There will probably be more questions in this thread, hence the vague title, but I need some help. I pulled the short straw and have been tasked by my friend group to set up and admin a TAK server so we can all communicate and have fun.
First problem: I have spun up a server in a VM on a commercial service. I have all my IPs and stuff. During the spin up, it was suggested, and I (stupidly, I begin to think) enabled SSH key security. I generated a pair of RSA SSH keys with an online generator (in hindsight, probably should have used my local machine's key generator), and gave the server the public key as part of the spin up process.
Now, because I have shared key security, I cannot log into my server with a password. I have the private key as a text file (from the online key generator).
I can PuTTY into my server, and it shows that the public key is there, but it asks for a password to log into the root account. But my password does not exist, because password log in is disabled.
How do I get my text Private key into a form that it can be shared with the remote server and let me in? In my FTP program (winSCP) there's a spot to tell it where the Private key is, but it will not accept a .txt file as a key. In PuTTY, I see where I can "Add key" but it doesn't seem to take the whole key as a text input, and there's no browse to find key option.
How TF do I log in? (this does not bode well for the rest of the server stand up process.)