openssh – Jay R. Wren – lazy dawg evarlast http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog babblings of a computer loving fool Wed, 15 Feb 2017 02:57:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.2 Converting your existing ssh rsa key for use with Windows Azure http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2013/09/22/converting-your-existing-ssh-rsa-key-for-use-with-windows-azure/ http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2013/09/22/converting-your-existing-ssh-rsa-key-for-use-with-windows-azure/#comments Mon, 23 Sep 2013 02:06:24 +0000 http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/?p=1094 Continue reading "Converting your existing ssh rsa key for use with Windows Azure"]]> Oh Microsoft, it seems like you make simple things complex.

I could not find anything on converting an existing ssh key for use with Azure. Once I figured out what was needed and the commands available to me, it was easy. It only took me hours of fiddling with ssh-keygen and openssl.

The magic was learning that openssh stores its id_rsa in a format which openssl can read. This means I can use openssl directly to convert this private key.

openssl req -x509 -new -days 365 -key id_rsa -out id_rsa.x509req.pem

Type in your password for your private key (if you are not using a password, you should be.) Then fill out the certificate request fields.

Now you can boot your azure vm using id_rsa.x509req.pem

azure vm create jrwtest b39f27a8b8c64d52b05eac6a62ebad85__Ubuntu-12_04_3-LTS-amd64-server-20130916.1-en-us-30GB jwren –location “East US” -e -t id_rsa.x509req.pem

Now you can secure shell to your azure vm.

ssh jrwtest.cloudapp.net

SWEET. 🙂  No generating new ssh keys for me.

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