Thanks Bart.

I'm doing my homework on these things rather than just asking the questions. (that's a good thing for all of us)

I plan on using the drag and drop method, I have PuTTY from work with Pi-Star, is that a recommended SSH program?

The majority of the files I see are using rsa versus dsa encryption. I researched the difference but I'm not sure what's best in my case as a client or if it really makes a difference.

On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 9:55 AM Bart Kus <me@bartk.us> wrote:

Most of the settings are not bound to your account, they're bound to the modem itself.  Creating a new account should be as simple as:

/user add group=full name=<NAME> password=<PASSWORD>

If you want to add SSH key-authentication to the account, you'll need to put the key file on the modem first, via

/tool fetch url="https://some.website/your.key"

or use scp to copy it, or use winbox to drag and drop the file into the modem's "File" section.

Once the file is there, you associate it with your account like so:

/user ssh-keys import user=<NAME> public-key-file=<KEY_FILENAME>

When your account has a key authentication method like this, password authentication for SSH is disabled.  However, you can override that and preserve password auth by setting:

/ip ssh set always-allow-password-login=yes

Once your new account is verified to work, you can erase the admin account:

/user remove admin

--Bart

On 11/2/2019 9:08 PM, Ric Merry wrote:

Is there a simple way to duplicate my account/credentials with current settings but a different user name.

I don't want to start over at step 1.

Thanks