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Learning more about SSH Keys

Thursday May 08 2025 • 09:35 PM

I stayed up late last night reading about the Tildeverse1. I watched James Tomasino’s introduction video on YouTube and read over Paul Ford’s original blog post about tilde.club2.

Access to these public unix servers is granted via SSH keys. I have many old SSH keys on my machine, most I presume are no longer being used, but I’m afraid of breaking my Github or something.

I’m slowly learning about the ~.ssh/config file (which I used last night for dokku) and earlier today I set up Mojave as its own host, meaning I can login as root with the very simple ssh mojave command.

I took some time to go over access logs in my VPS. I was surprised to see the huge amount of failed login attempts from random bots all over the place. I need to disable password access on root but I’m taking my time to do so to avoid locking myself out lol.