SSH keys provide a secure method of authentication and removes the need to transmit or store passwords for access to a server shell. All Advomatic servers require SSH keys for authentication. While using SSH keys is often a new way of working for many clients, they usually find that the many benefits they provide outweigh the potential initial hassle of setup and orientation. We hope you will find this to be the case as well!

This section describes how to generate ssh keys on either Mac OSX/Linux or Windows.

Please email any questions regarding the instructions below to support@advomatic.com.

** Please remember that your private key must be kept secure. Never email it. If you need to move it between computers, use a USB drive or similar removable storage media, do not transmit it over a network.