I spent about 3 hours trying to figure out how to connect to a linux box from my windows machine using putty without having to send the password. This is connecting to an Ubuntu server that is using OpenSSH. The...
Another datapoint, if its useful. I regularly shutdown via ssh, but I run ssh from the command line (not via Putty). The following shuts down my Pi and powers off (HDMI out becomes disabled, but always on Power...
Public key authentication is an alternative means of identifying yourself to a login server, instead of typing a password. It is more secure and more flexible, but more difficult to set up. In conventional password...
The goal is to connect to my home computer from outside. The ISP blocks all the ports (and demands for business package with static ip address), so simple port forwarding on home router does not work. I have used...
Often SSH tunnels are shown from Linux to Linux but frequently, we need to create an encrypted SSH tunnel from Windows to a service on Linux using PuTTY. Using Windows 7 we will create a PuTTY SSH tunnel to our...