SSH keys are the great utility for Linux shared hosting clients. These SSH keys play an important role while allowing a specific computer system to access your website’s information through an SSH session.
Find the ‘Generate a new Key and Import Key’ links and follow the following steps.
- Click the ‘Generate a new key icon.
- Fill all the required information properly. This is to be done by keeping in mind your requirements as RSA keys creates a faster confirmation of identity and DSA keys are known for fast key generation and signing times.
- Choose a key size using the pull-down menu. While doing this you should know that a bigger key size provides more security but will take more time for authentication. So you need to decided the proper combination of security level and time consumed for authentication.
- Click on Generate Key for the generation of new SSH key and it will get automatically installed on the web server.