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Acronym Soup - Setting up a Secure Shell Key in Kubuntu to access a Site5 Hosted Subversion Repository

Konsole ScreenshotI can't tell you how many times having a Subversion (SVN) repository has saved my butt with clients in the past. Most recently, one of my clients had inadvertently deleted their entire site and did not have any backups to restore it. Dun-Dun-Dah! SVN to the rescue!

However, when restoring the files, it became increasingly frustrating how many times I was asked for my password when browsing the file directories in KDESVN (Hey! Back off! I like using a GUI tool to browse my SVN repos and will eventually learn the command line syntax). So, after I "fixed" somebody else's mistake, I turned my attention to setting up a RSA private key/public key cryptographic pair to be able to access my SVN repository securely, and without being repeatedly asked for my password. Here are the steps I followed:

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