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I followed all the steps and created the /home/dave/.ssh folder. I then ran:

ssh-keygen -t rsa –P ""

And got: too many arguments. I tried:

ssh-keygen -t rsa –P

and it jumped back to the prompt.

I then tried:

$ cat $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys
cat: /home/dave/.ssh/id_rsa.pub: No such file or directory

What am I doing wrong?

terdon
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Dave
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    Please [edit] your question and add i) your operating system and ii) the output of ls -l /home/dave/.ssh and ls -ld /home/dave/.ssh. Also, please explain what you are trying to do, what are you trying to set up, exactly? – terdon Mar 28 '21 at 18:09

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Replace the en dash – with -:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -P ""
GAD3R
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  • thank you very much....then it asked to put the file and i put it in both known_hosts.pub and our identification has been saved in /home/dave/.ssh/id_rsa Your public key has been saved in /home/dave/.ssh/id_rsa.pub and in authorized_keys It still says : Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive) – Dave Mar 28 '21 at 19:23
  • thank you very much....then it asked to put the file and i put it in both known_hosts.pub and in authorized_keys
    and i got:
    Your public key has been saved in /home/dave/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
    It still says : Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive)     – Dave Mar 28 '21 at 19:31
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    @Dave this is a different issue. Please ask a new question, but this time make sure to explain what you are trying to do and what operating system you are using. Don't just list the commands you ran, the commands don't do what you want so they're probably the wrong commands, but we can't help you if you don't tell us what you want the commands to do. – terdon Mar 28 '21 at 19:45
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    Increasing the verbosity of the SSH daemon (and the client) should yield information as to why it's saying denied. – Shadur-don't-feed-the-AI Mar 28 '21 at 19:46
  • well, i read somewhere that SSH was easier to connect my computers at home. But that was a joke. so i gave up on that option. – Dave Sep 04 '21 at 01:20