Public keys can be uploaded automatically to a server. After a connection has been made to the server, select a key pair on the Keys and Certificates page of SSH Tectia Configuration and click Upload....

Figure 3.7. Uploading a key

	Note
	The automatic key uploading process uses SFTP. The administrator of the remote host computer may have restricted user access so that users are not able to configure public-key authentication for themselves even if public-key authentication is allowed in the server configuration. If you do not have the proper file permissions to the key directory, the automatic upload will fail.

Even if the automatic upload succeeds, it is possible that the server administrator has configured the system to store keys elsewhere than in the default .ssh2 directory. In this case the keys and the authorization file additions have to be moved manually to the proper directory. Another directory can also be specified (relative to the user directory).

If you do not use the automatic upload facility, you will need to place your public key file in the .ssh2/authorized_keys subdirectory in your home directory on the remote host computer. The default location for Unix servers is $HOME/.ssh2/authorized_keys and for Windows servers %USERPROFILE\.ssh2\authorizedkeys. See Manually Uploading the Public Key.