A personal RSA key is required to get full access to the ordered Games Services products.
The RSA key is much safer than the standard password of any complexity, although at first it can cause some inconvenience which, after a couple of days of work, will become invisible. But the usability of rsa keys will be noticed by everyone.
So let's get started. To generate a key pair (private and public) we need to install Putty.
After installation, we are looking for the utility Puttygen.exe (Putty Key Generator) located in the installation folder of the program itself or in the Start menu -> PuTTy -> Puttygen.
We start puttygen and we see such a window
We keep the default settings: RSA key type, bit length 2048.
Press the Generate button, a progress bar will appear and the request to actively move the mouse cursor in the indicated empty field in random order, simultaneously pressing the buttons on the keyboard to generate the key.
After the key is generated, you need to perform the last steps:
- In the Key comment: field, enter your nickname or project name (example johnny or la2server)
- In the Key passphrase field, specify the desired password for the key. Take your password selection very seriously, as you won’t be able to recover it. It is also not recommended to write it somewhere.
- In the Confirm passphrase: field, confirm the selected password.
- Click the Save private key button in the dialog that appears, specify the path to save the key file (it is recommended to save it to a usb flash drive or to any other reliable place).
- At the top of the window, in the section Key public key for pasting into OpenSSH authorized_keys file: copy the entire set of characters (right click -> select all -> copy)
Notify the copied public key through the ticket system or send it to email. It should start with ssh-rsa
Please note, the private key that you keep a transfer we do not have, and give to anyone at all!
Congratulations, you have successfully generated a key pair to access your server through SSH.
