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Open your terminal

If you're using a Windows machine you can use PowerShell as a terminal

On a Unix machine (Linux, macOS, BSD) you can use a terminal emulator. Here's how open the Terminal on Ubuntu running Gnome

Generate an SSH key

ABI servers do not authenticate with username/password, instead we use username and authentication keys. To generate an authentication key, you may run the following command in your console.

ssh-keygen -a 96 -t ed25519

You will get the following output

Sharing your key

You may run cat .ssh/id_ed25519.pub to see your public key. Please share the public key with your system administrator.

Logging into a server

You may run

ssh -l yourusername nameofserver.abi.am

to log into the server.