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SSH between two computers

Generate the ssh key in the client
Add the configuration to use the key for the server

Host 192.168.1.110
    HostName 192.168.1.110
    User orangepi
    IdentityFile /home/s1n7ax/.ssh/home_server

Log into the server using SSH using password
Create the .ssh/authorized_keys file and copy the content from .ssh/key.pub
Restart the ssh agent eval $(ssh-agent -s)
Now you can directly ssh without password

Setting permissions for the SSH

chown -R orangepi:orangepi .ssh/
chmod 700 .ssh
chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys

Setting permissions for the SSH