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I've setup a repository on my linux server. I want to work with it but I don't want to type the password every time I operate with the git. So I need the public/private key authentication.

The problem is that on my host machine I use Windows.

Where do I create the keys? On the host(Windows) or on the server (Linux)?

Another problem I've encountered is that generating the keys on Windows - the public key's extension is .ppk (which is SSH2) and on Linux is .pub (OpenSSH). Do I need to convert the key somehow?

Is there any post on the internet that will explain and give a full solution to my problem?

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create the keys on the client/host and put the pub key in the allowed_keys on the .ssh directory of the user ( you can use openssl to do all of this)
then change the linux ssh config and other necessary files to allow key authentication

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