Windows SSH client PDF Print E-mail
Written by Carl Friis-Hansen   
Thursday, 31 July 2008 20:06
SSH stands for Secure SHell and boils down to remotely manage a computer without being an open book to the more nasty people eavesdropping on the Internet highways. The SSH connection also paves the road for SFTP, which is a good thing to use when you upload or download confidential documents or programs to a server over the Internet.
This is all pretty strait forward in the Unix/Linux/Mac-world where these facilities are normally build-in. However, this is not really standard in M$-Windows and I have no idea why. But, this is where PuTTY comes to your resque. PuTTY has a small collection of ready to use programs in one package called PuTTY.EXE. You can run SHH, SFTP, etc.

PuTTY is an open source for virtually all M$-Windows versions.

You can find the download page at:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
Select for example the installer, download this to your computer and execute it.

When you run PuTTY, fill in the connection like this:
Establishing SSH connection
Host Name
carl-fh.com
The security certificate holds this name
Connection typeSSH

Port22

New security cert,
Yes
Accept the new security certificate
User name
<username>
This is your shell and ftp user name
User password
<Password>
This is the corresponding password

You might also want to change to UTF-8 in the Translation menu:
Set UTF-8 for the semi graphics
When you are logged in, you might like Midnight Commander to help you around the system. You start Midnight Commander with the command mc, but before you do, it's best to maximize the terminal window.

Good luck
Last Updated on Tuesday, 09 September 2008 00:34
 

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