I have a remote server that I want to allow SSH access to but only to certain people, and I don&#39;t trust passwords, so keys are the way to go.<br><br>However, all I know about setting up keys is based on the user creating a public/private key pair, and the server adding that user&#39;s public key to it&#39;s trusted keys to allow access.<br>

<br>Ideally what I want to do is the other way around, in that I want to generate the key pairs on the server and copy the relevant key to the clients so that they all share the same key (there won&#39;t be many users and I just want to give them a key rather than have them create keys themselves).<br>

<br>What is the &quot;correct&quot; way to do this, or am I doing something horribly wrong? I figure that I can set up the key pair myself as usual, but then copy the private key from my PC to anyone else who needs access, but I&#39;m not sure if that&#39;s the right approach.<br>

<br>(I&#39;m quite OK with the idea of creating different keys for different users, adding them to the server, then issuing the keys to the users, so I can revoke access from any given user quite easily if I need to; I just don&#39;t want the users having to do the key creation bit.)<br>

<br>If it&#39;s relevant, most of the users other than me will be connecting via Windows (PuTTY), and will need to be able to tunnel through the SSH connection for various apps.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><pre cols="78">Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450<br>

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