How to add SSH key from Horizon web console on Eumetsat Elasticity

While using web console on your VM, you may face situation when you will have to enter SSH public key.

Unfortunately, copy/paste functionality in not supported by our console. For adding a key to an existing instance, the easiest method would be getting the key via curl.

For instance you may go to https://pastebin.com/ and put your public key there (you can set if and how long content is visible to others and so on)

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copy URL of raw pastebin content (for obtaining a raw content, click on “Raw” icon),

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and issue the command from inside of instance:

curl <pastebin url here> > mykey.txt
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After downloading the file, you may check if your key is saved correctly using cat command:

cat mykey.txt
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Please note that the key must be put into /home/eouser/.ssh/authorized_keys, because you can ssh to your instance as eouser, but not as eoconsole. So once you are eoconsole user and get the key as described above, you should use:

cat mykey.txt | sudo tee /home/eouser/.ssh/authorized_keys