SSH Keys

Spearhead Cloud service use SSH key pairs for user authentication. You must first upload an existing SSH key pair to your account before you can provision machines.

If you do not have an SSH key pair see the following for manually creating them.

Manually generate SSH keys in MacOS Manually generate SSH keys in Windows

Once you have your SSH key ready, grab the public key (usually id_rsa.pub) and add it to your account by accessing the top right menu button and selecting Account Details.

Next click on ADD KEY next to "MY KEYS". Give it a familiar name, especially if you have or intend to use multiple keys, and paste your public key.

Click on ADD KEY and you are done. You can now provision machines using your account.


SSH Keys

Spearhead Cloud service use SSH key pairs for user authentication. You must first upload an existing SSH key pair to your account before you can provision machines.

If you do not have an SSH key pair see the following for manually creating them.

Manually generate SSH keys in MacOS Manually generate SSH keys in Windows

Manually generating SSH Keys in MacOS

  1. Open the Terminal.app (In Finder, choose Utilities from the Applications folder).
  2. Run the command "ssh-keygen -t rsa" which will start the generation process.
  3. Press ENTER to accept the defaults (location, etc.).You may type in a passphrase or click enter, in which case your key will not be protected with a passphrase.

After you confirm the system will generate the key pair. Your private key will be saved to a file named id_rsa in a .ssh folder in your home directory. Make sure you never share this file with others.

Your public key is saved to a file named id_rsa.pub in a .ssh folder in your home directory. You can copy this file using the following command "pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub" and then paste this into the Customer portal.

Manually generating SSH Keys in Windows

Please use the following documentation while we prepare our own