VM Warmup Exercise

Description

The purpose of this assignment is to ensure the you can access your VM and do some basic system administration tasks. Here is what you need to do:

1. Create a new user on your VM named “schwesin” with the password “Hello”

2. Generate an SSH key pair with the “ed25519” algorithm and no passphrase named “schwesin_XXX” where “XXX” is the last octet in your VM’s IP address. Note that you can do this on any machine (you do not need to use your VM for this.)

3. Copy the appropriate key to the “.ssh/authorized_keys” file in the new user’s home directory. The safe way to do this is with the “ssh-copy-id” script from the machine you generated the key pair on.

Turning in the Assignment

To submit your assignment, create a gzipped tar file named project3.tgz of a DIRECTORY named project3 containing containing ONLY the SSH key pair. Then submit that file to the appropriate folder on D2L.

Grading Criteria

I can successfully log in to the VM as the new user with the SSH key pair.