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You may have done this: ssh-keygen and ssh-copy-id and now you want to enable SSL. With Eric Ambergs "Linux-Server" book and Converting keys between openssl and openssh , I did this so far: local: "scp MYKEY root@remote.server:~" after this its just remote: "a2enmod ssl" "mkdir /etc/apache2/ssl" "openssl req -x509 -days 365 -new -key MYKEY -out /etc/apache2/ssl/nedab.de.pem" and make sure you use a wildcard domain as common name, e.g. *.common.com. That way your certificate is valid for all subdomains.  "a2enmod redirect" virtualhost in /etc/apache/site-available with help from Redirect Request to SSL : <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName .......... Redirect permanent / https://........../ </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost _default_:443> SSLEngine on SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/........pem SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache...

My centOS vserver broke down after a "yum update" and even the centOS community forum could not give an answer within 24h. In my books that is poor for the almighty and stable centOS. Bare in mind that I am just a normal user of linux, no professional and definitely no expert when it comes to server, but I can read, try and share my findings: debian 6 installation steps via ssh secure your server: adduser foobar for security purposes  change /etc/sshd/sshd_conf to PermitRootLogin no now you can login as foobar and change to root via su - visudo for sudo command permissions and put this at the bottom: foobar   ALL=(ALL) ALL change hostname change hostname in /etc/hostname and in /etc/hosts reboot login via rsa key rather than password locally do ssh-keygen ssh-copy-id -i foobar@hostname... ssh now works without passwords but with keys (for easy deployment) install ruby and rails via rvm login as root always good to have: sudo apt-get install...

After changing my system to manjaro I had to recover some settings, and sadly had to do some things again, e.g. my ssh login via rsa keys. After doing it manually I saw this 3 step answer on some message board: ssh-keygen Press Enter key till you get the prompt ssh-copy-id -i root@ip_address (It will once ask for the password of the host system) ssh root@ip_address Now you should be able to login without any password One thing I had to change: chmod 700 .ssh on the remote machine, and then it worked like a charme.