*nix (including OS X) Users

Copy your public key to the server

If you have the ssh-copy-id command available (most Linux distributions, unfortunately, not available by default on Mac OS X).

$ ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub cvl_username@ece2524.ece.vt.edu

If the ssh-copy-id command is not available you can run the following commands instead. You will be prompted for your CVL account password for each command.

$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh cvl_username@ece2524.ece.vt.edu 'mkdir .ssh; cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys'
$ ssh cvl_username@ece2524.ece.vt.edu 'chmod 700 .ssh; chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys'

Add your key to your local SSH Agent

$ ssh-add

Connect

If everything worked, your keys should be used for authentication the next time you ssh into your shell acount

$ ssh cvl_username@ece2524.ece.vt.edu

If you used a passphrase when creating your key you will be promted to enter it.