How to Set Up an SSH in SDF

Super Dimensions Fortress, or SDF, represents a network of community-based software authors, students and enthusiasts. It's both an open-source network platform and a registered 501(c)7 nonprofit organization. Members of SDF gain access to email, a usenet server, games, a bulletin board and other programmers who can provide help and resources. If you're a developer, knowing how to connect to the SDF network using a Secure Shell, or SSH, command line terminal can be a handy procedure to know.

Instructions

1. Launch the command line terminal interface application that you use to access and administer your UNIX-based SDF system.

2. Enable SSH by running the following three commands in the command line interface:

   $ mkdir ~/.ssh

   $ cd ~/.ssh/

   $ touch authorized_keys

3. Locate the "authorized_keys" file that you created by using the "touch" command in the previous step in a plain text editor.

4. Paste the contents of your id_dsa.pub file, which is used in other network configuration devices in your network, into the "authorized_keys" file, then save the file.

References

• SDF: Using SSH for Connections/Transfer to/from SDF
• SDF: FAQ