login to a linux server on your local machine from which you want to esatablish the connection.

Generate public and private rsa

[root@oel6-node01 ~]# ssh-keygen -t rsa -N "" -b "2048" -C "key comment" -f /tmp/oci_rsa_key
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Your identification has been saved in /tmp/oci_rsa_key.
Your public key has been saved in /tmp/oci_rsa_key.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
56:85:6a:80:f7:5f:68:db:39:5f:00:70:56:a9:11:ce key comment
The key's randomart image is:
+--[ RSA 2048]----+
|     .    .o=o.. |
|    . o   .*o .  |
|     . o ...E+   |
|        +.o o .  |
|       .So + . . |
|       .  o +   .|
|             o . |
|              .  |
|                 |
+-----------------+
[root@oel6-node01 ~]# cd /tmp
[root@oel6-node01 tmp]# ls -ltr oci*
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  393 May 26 17:06 oci_rsa_key.pub
-rw-------. 1 root root 1675 May 26 17:06 oci_rsa_key
[root@oel6-node01 tmp]#

create a compute instance on OCI

login to oci and click on instance

click on create instance

provide inputs as needed

in this step provide the public key which was generated above. i copied the public key on my windows maching and selected the it by clicking on browse option.

click create and your instance will start provisioning


once created status will change to running


note down the public ip address it will be used to connect to this machine

Now connect to this compute instance by providing private key generated above. note the user we are using to connect is “opc”

[root@oel6-node01 ~]#  ssh -i /tmp/oci_rsa_key opc@152.67.27.243
The authenticity of host '152.67.27.243 (152.67.27.243)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 93:a9:be:28:0a:3e:a3:93:58:26:42:b9:7e:12:45:50.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added '152.67.27.243' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.

you are now connected to the compute instance. verify the details

[opc@oel7-comp01 ~]$ uname -a
Linux oel7-comp01 4.14.35-1902.301.1.el7uek.x86_64 #2 SMP Tue Mar 31 16:50:32 PDT 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[opc@oel7-comp01 ~]$  hostname
oel7-comp01 

[opc@oel7-comp01 ~]$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs        458M     0  458M   0% /dev
tmpfs           486M     0  486M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           486M   13M  473M   3% /run
tmpfs           486M     0  486M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda3        39G  2.0G   37G   6% /
/dev/sda1       200M  9.7M  191M   5% /boot/efi
tmpfs            98M     0   98M   0% /run/user/1000

you can switch to root user as well

[opc@oel7-comp01 ~]$ sudo su -
Last failed login: Tue May 26 13:19:39 GMT 2020 on pts/1
There was 1 failed login attempt since the last successful login.
[root@oel7-comp01 ~]# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023

to copy file to compute instance

create a file on local server

[root@oel6-node01 tmp]# touch 111
[root@oel6-node01 tmp]# vi 111
[root@oel6-node01 tmp]# cat 111
second file

user secure copy

[root@oel6-node01 tmp]# scp -i /tmp/oci_rsa_key 111 opc@152.67.27.243:/tmp
111                                                                                                                                                        100%   12     0.0KB/s   00:00

verify the file on compute instance

[root@oel6-node01 tmp]# ssh -i /tmp/oci_rsa_key opc@152.67.27.243
Last login: Tue May 26 13:35:54 2020 from 106.207.145.214
[opc@oel7-comp01 ~]$ cd /tmp
[opc@oel7-comp01 tmp]$ cat 111
second file
[opc@oel7-comp01 tmp]$