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Log into the server using your existing authentication method.

Then log in as the new user and create a password for it.

sudo su - mf.webmaster
pwd

First check in your home folder that you have a .ssh directory and an authorized_keys. If you had used your account to access another server through ssh the files may have been created for you.

ls -al # which will show hidden directories
ls -al .ssh # given the .ssh directory exists

Otherwise, perform the following steps,

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cd ~/.ssh
cat ~/id_rsa.pub >> authorized_keys # appends the contents of the your public key to the authorized_keys file

cd ~
rm authorized_keys # no need to keep this file around

Test Key Based

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Authentication

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