Option #1 - Generate a New Private and Public Key Pair
- Login to your cPanel server via SSH as your cPanel user, or use the Terminal icon in the cPanel account to access the...
- Run the following command to generate the private and public keys that you will use to authenticate to your remote Git...
- Create the ssh configuration file if it does not yet exist: touch...
- Save the file
What is remote access key in cPanel?
Remote Access Key is a cPanel feature that allows external servers and software to communicate with a cPanel & WHM server. It can be used by multiple servers and services.
What is the SSH access interface in cPanel?
This section of cPanel’s SSH Access interface allows you to create, import, manage, and remove SSH keys. The system will use these keys when you confirm that a specific computer has the right to access your website’s information with SSH. Use this section of the interface to create new SSH key pairs, which include a public key and a private key.
How do I generate a public key for cPanel?
Enter your cPanel account’s password. From the Windows Start menu, open the client. Navigate to the PuTTY Key Generator interface. Under the Actions heading, click Generate. PuTTY will generate the key and display the result under the Key menu. Copy the public key and paste it in the .ssh/authorized_keys file.
How do I add a private key to my cPanel account?
Upload your PRIVATE key to the ~/.ssh directory of your cPanel account. This can be done via the File Manager icon in cPanel, FTP, SFTP, or you can copy and paste it in via SSH if you know how. Login to your cPanel server via SSH as your cPanel user, or use the Terminal icon in the cPanel account to access the command line.
Where to upload private key?
Upload your PRIVATE key to the ~/.ssh directory of your cPanel account . This can be done via the File Manager icon in cPanel, FTP, SFTP, or you can copy and paste it in via SSH if you know how.
Can you use a public key in git?
While you are in the management interface of your remote Git repository, ensure that you have already configured the PUBLIC key within the remote system so that it is authorized for access. The public key that you configure in the remote system should be the one that was generated at the same time as the private key that you intend to use. NOTE: Keys that were generated with a passphrase are not compatible with cPanel Git™ Version Control. Generate a new set of keys without a passphrase if needed.
Do you need to pull changes from a remote git repository?
You need to pull changes from a remote Git repository to the repository that is hosted in your cPanel account and the remote repository requires authentication.
Can you use a passphrase protected key in cPanel?
NOTE: Keys that are passphrase protected are not compatible with cPanel Git™ Version Control. If your existing keys require a passphrase, please make use of the section labeled: Option #1 - Generate a New Private and Public Key Pair to learn how to generate a compatible set of keys.
What is SSH access in cPanel?
This section of cPanel’s SSH Access interface allows you to create, import, manage, and remove SSH keys. The system will use these keys when you confirm that a specific computer has the right to access your website’s information with SSH.
How to generate SSH key?
To generate a new SSH key pair, perform the following steps: Click Manage SSH Keys. Click Generate a New Key. To use a custom key name, enter the key name in the Key Name (This value defaults to id_rsa): text box. If you use a custom key name, you must manually specify the SSH key when you log in to the server.
How to log into a server using SSH?
To log in to a server via SSH with PuTTY and a public key, perform the following steps: From the Windows Start menu, open the client. Navigate to the PuTTY Key Generator interface. Under the Actions heading, click Generate. PuTTY will generate the key and display the result under the Key menu.
How to use custom key name?
To use a custom key name, enter the key name in the Choose a name for this key (defaults to id_dsa) text box.
When do you need to specify SSH key?
If you use a custom key name, you must manually specify the SSH key when you log in to the server.
How to use PuTTY on Linux?
macOS or Linux. To use PuTTY to connect to your server via SSH, perform the following steps: Download and install the PuTTY client. From the Windows Start menu, open the client. In the Session interface, enter the hostname or IP address of the server in the Host Name (or IP address) text box (for example, 192.0.2.0 ).
How to use remote repository?
To use the remote repository on our local dev machine, we must first clone it to create a local repository. Cloning creates a complete copy. Open a terminal on your local device and use cd to move to a directory you would like to store the project’s files in.
Where is the SSH access page?
Navigate to the SSH Access page in cPanel, which is in the main page menu’s Security section.
How to deploy a git repository?
We’ll explain how to: 1 Create a Git repository on your cPanel server. 2 Clone the repository and pull code changes to a local development machine. 3 Push code changes back to the server. 4 Use cPanel’s Git Management interface to deploy a site into production.
How to store development files on server?
Use the File Manager to create a new directory on your server to store the site’s development files. Do not use spaces in the directory’s name.
How to generate public and private keys in cPanel?
There are several ways to create key pairs, but one of the easiest is cPanel’s SSH Access tool, which you’ll find in the Security section of cPanel’s main menu. Open SSH Access and click Manage SSH Keys. Click Generate New Key.
Where is the private key stored?
If you have followed the walkthrough, you now have an authorized public key in place on your server. The private key is stored on your local machine. To use the keys, you simply tell SSH where to find the private key when you open a connection.
What is Public Key Cryptography?
Cryptography is the science of secrecy. Cryptographers design secure communication systems, and encryption is their most important tool. Simply put, encryption scrambles messages so they can’t be read. You start with a message called the plaintext and convert it to nonsense, which is called the ciphertext. Decrypting reverses the process, converting ciphertext back into readable plaintext.
Why do we need SSH keys?
SSH keys make your server more secure. They prevent poor password choices from expo sing your server and its users to unnecessary risk. To further enhance security, server administrators may want to prevent users from logging in with passwords altogether with the SSH Password Authorization Tweak in WHM’s Security Center.
What is SSH client?
An S SH client on your local computer connects to a daemon on the server. SSH encrypts the commands you send to the server and the information it sends back. When you log in with SSH, you must supply authentication credentials. These are usually your cPanel account’s username and password.
What happens when you use a public key?
Public key cryptography has two significant consequences. The first is that there are no shared secrets. The second is that the person with the private key can prove who they are by decrypting a message. If I encrypt a message that says “hello” with a person’s public key, and they tell me, “You said hello, ” I can be certain they have the private key. It might not be obvious why that matters yet, but it’s the foundation of online security, including HTTPS encryption and SSH keys.
Why is SSH key more secure?
SSH keys are more secure because they are not vulnerable to guessing attacks. We discussed SSH keys briefly in How To Use PuTTY SSH With cPanel. In this article, we’ll dig a little deeper into how public key ...
Downloading the Private Key File
If you’ve gone through the steps for generating a public key on cPanel and authorize it, it would have automatically created a corresponding private key which you need to download. Open up cPanel and find the SSH access icon. The screen will be split into two sections – one holding the public keys, and one holding the private keys.
Downloading and Generating the Private Key
In order to generate the keys and use Putty, you have to download at least two files from this location. The first is the key generation file as shown below.
