I'm a noob trying to learn SSH/VPS because I think it's interesting and would also like to attempt to route my traffic through it when Im on an open wifi. I already have a service for that purpose but I'd like to learn this method.

I have a virtual Ubuntu 10.04 machine running and I had one running before and was able to SSH into it but things went wrong and I deleted that one and started a new one.

I generated a new key locally via terminal and copied the finger print into the box online under "add your RSA DSA keys" here in the console tab.
Then I tried to copy it to the virtual machine using 'scp' transfer,neither worked. Also Im getting the finger print from the server but don't know what to do with it.

What can I do? Thanks

Regards,Elucidator (noob)

That only works for LISH, the linode console.

If you're on a Windows PC, use PuTTY as your SSH client. Use PuTTYGen to generate your SSH keys. You'll login to SSH as root first, using the password you set via linode "deploy a linux distribution."

Your first step is to 1) Get in using root via ssh and the password you set during distro deploy, 2) creating a non-root user, 3) setting a password on said non-root user, then 4) deploying a public key to that user's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file.

Once you have that done, you'll use ssh tunneling via putty to setup a little proxy. Everything you do goes through that proxy.

Thanks,I'm running Linux and don't have windows on this box.

I did deploy Ubuntu but cannot SSH into it because my keys don't match. I tried Lish but I keep getting 'PERMISSION DENIED' regardless of which passwords I use (root,Lish or the main PW I use ) I'm white-listed from the IP on on BTW.

I've tried everything and scoured the message boards for answers and am a complete loss.

EDIT: The terminal tells me when I try to login via Lish that my keys don't match as well, I did set up a key so am I locked out totally?