Setup ssh keys for remote access

Published on March 23, 2026

To easily setup your public keys into freshly created servers, specially when copy and paste is limited like in proxmox web console you can benefit for one of your accounts in a public or private git servers reachable by your server like Forgejo, Github, and Gitlab.

They all have the same API where you can fetch your public keys under the pattern:

https://<git-server>/<username>.keys

Try it in your browser to see the output.

So, all you have to do is run this command in your server session replacing the git-server address and the username to match yours:

curl https://<git-server>/<username>.keys >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

That will append your public keys into the authorized keys of the logged account and next time you ssh into that account@server it will use your ssh key as credentials for the connection.

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