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Step-2: SSH Keys to Cloud instance

How to generetae ssh keys for login on PDC2 instance

You need private/public keys for login to a PDC Cloud (PDC2) Instance. For your security that we have removed username/password login .

Switch to the user you created in step 1. 

su oneuser      # replace with your settings
ssh-keygen 
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter a file in which to save the key (/home/oneuser/.ssh/id_rsa):   # Hit enter or write alternate path
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):     # write strong/easily memorizable password 

After that,    

cat /home/oneuser/.ssh/id_rsa.pub    (# or what ever path you gave earlier)

and send the output of above to PDC support along with your PDC2 username.

That is all!

Please note: you only have to follow these instructions once (unless you change your Private/Public keys).