A junior systems administrator has generated a PKI certificate for SSH sessions. The administrator would like to configure authentication without passwords to remote systems. Which of the following should the administrator perform?
A) Add the content of id_rsa.pub file to the remote system ~/.ssh/authorized_keys location. Add the content of id_rsa.pub file to the remote system ~/.ssh/authorized_keys location.
B) Add the content of id_rsa file to the remote system ~/.ssh/authorized_keys location. id_rsa location.
C) Add the content of id_rsa file to the remote system ~/.ssh/known_hosts location. ~/.ssh/known_hosts
D) Add the content of id_rsa.pub file to the remote system ~/.ssh/known_hosts location.

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The correct method to configure SSH key-based authentication is to add the content of the public key file (id_rsa.pub) to the remote system's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file. This allows the remote system to authenticate the user based on the public key.

A Junior Systems Administrator Has Generated a PKI Certificate for SSH