Hey guys,
So, i’m a non technical guy who followed the instructions at https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-ssh-keys--2 to generate both public and private key with the default file path.
Then, tried to setup FileZilla to connect to my server using SFTP via instructions at https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-filezilla-to-transfer-and-manage-files-securely-on-your-vps where I then couldn’t find the key file apparently stored somewhere locally on my hard drive? I even tried to search on my local HD with id_rsa
Thanks in advanced for the help.
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A better method of transferring your keys is to use ssh-copy-id.
Once you generate your keys (ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096), fun the following command.
ssh-copy-id user@ip-address
the “ip-address” reference above is the ip of the box that you want to ssh into.
Sorry, to answer your original question, your key files are stored in /home/user/.ssh.
If you issued the ssh-keygen using sudo or root, the key files are in /root/.ssh.
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