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Paste a SSH key into authorized_keys file?

Posted on September 20, 2014

I’m following this tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-ssh-keys-with-putty-to-connect-to-a-vps, to set up my ssh keys so I can use filezilla. It one point, some ssh keys get pasted into vim. the instructions say os it i, then right-click. When I do that, nothing happens. Any ideas??



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