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Prepare managed nodes

Prepare managed nodes

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Prepare managed nodes

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- [Instructor] Before we can manage rhhost2, we need to prepare it. Be sure to have both rhhost1 and rhhost2 up and running. We'll start by making SSH keys on rhhost1. In a terminal, as your normal user, create SSH keys by typing, ssh-keygen, and hit Enter. This will generate a new RSA key pair. When it prompts you for a location to save the keys, just take the default and hit Enter. When it prompts you for a password, hit Enter, and when it prompts you again, hit Enter again. Now, list the ~/.ssh directory. Type in, ls ~/.ssh, and hit Enter. We see that we have two files in this directory now, id_rsa and id_rsa.pub. Now, we'll copy the public key to rhhost2 using the ssh-copy-id command. Type in clear, and then type in, ssh-copy-id, space, and then enter rhhost2's IP address. For me, it's 192.168.3.110, and hit Enter. When it asks to accept the fingerprint, type in yes, and hit Enter. And then, enter user1's…

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