Document SSH key setup

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# How to setup on |*ssh server in linux*|
* create user in your system using the command provided below
``useradd xrambad --shell=/bin/true``
``useradd appletunnel --shell=/bin/true``
this will make the user have no shell + sftp and scp access.
* create ssh key for the user.
* Create SSH key for the user:
- Login into the created user
- Execute `ssh-keygen`
- Leave the passphrase empty during ssh key creation
- Append ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub contents to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file, if authorized_keys file does not exist, create it
* there will be issue that user can't login to fix this
add ``/bin/true`` to ``/etc/shells``
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[09:16:17 WARN]: [AppleTunneler] no Identities files found, please put them in plugins/AppleTunneler/Identities
[09:16:17 ERROR]: Error occurred while enabling AppleTunneler v1.0-SNAPSHOT (Is it up to date?)
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* place your user that you created private key into ``plugins/AppleTunneler/Identities`` folder
* put your created user's private key in ``plugins/AppleTunneler/Identities`` folder
* start server again, but you will be met with another error as shown below
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* run this command to create the host file
``ssh-keyscan limework.net >> /home/test/Desktop/test-server/plugins/AppleTunneler/.known_hosts``
* now modify the config of the plugins for your needs by setting host, port, username of ssh server and setting tunneling needed.
and done.