There are times when you want to connect to the Internet through unknown and/or insecure networks such as a wifihotspot. If you aren’t careful, you might make it all too easy for someone to sniff your connection.
There are times when you want to connect to the Internet using your remote machine’s (US) IP address. Because [...]
If you generated a Putty private key (.ppk) in Windows and you want to use it with a SSH or SFTP client (for example Gnome Terminal, Nautilus, gFTP) in Linux, you have to convert it to OpenSSH’s private key format, because putty private key format (.ppk) is not compatible with OpenSSH.
Okay, open PuTTYgen and [...]
If you want to use your PuTTY generated private key (.ppk) in Linux with not only PuTTY, but other SSH or SFTP client (Terminal, Nautilus, GFTP, etc), you have to convert it to OpenSSH’s private key format, because PuTTY private key format (.ppk) is not compatible with OpenSSH.
First, install “putty-tools” package, if you did [...]
In my Windows machines I use PuTTY SSH client to connect to my Linux server. I know there are other SSH clients available in Linux, but I like PuTTY, so I wanted to use it on my newly installed Debian Lenny desktop.
I installed PuTTY with this command:
apt-get install putty putty-tools
Okay, Putty was installed.
I copied my public and [...]
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