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Connecting to a remote machine via SSH

April 8, 2009

If you want to connect to a remote machine’s OpenSSH server from your locale Linux/Debian/Ubuntu machine using Gnome Terminal, Nautilus or gFTP, you need the openssh-client package. This package provides the ssh, scp and sftp clients, the ssh-agent and ssh-add programs to make public key authentication more convenient, and the ssh-keygen, ssh-keyscan, ssh-copy-id and ssh-argv0 utilities.
If [...]

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How to convert PuTTY’s private key (.ppk) into OpenSSH’s private key format in Linux?

April 3, 2009

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 [...]