SSH Proper Tutorial

[fear_matrix]

Hello Everyone,

I have generated a public SSH key in the server and it is located at /root/.ssh. Now i have a windows 7 system and i wanted to connect to that server using that key. How can i do that with windows server 7 as client

I know this is a silly question but i have books and none of them explain how to connect to a server with windows 7

Regards
Fear_Matrix

[Irithori]

First, you need to copy the public part of your key to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2

Then you need a ssh client on windows.
Putty is usually used.

However, putty cannot directly use openssl keys.
Convert them first with PuTTYgen.

Two notes:
a) Be sure, that the private key does have a passphrase
b) It is common practice to disallow remote root logins. Better way is to use regular accounts, that can then escalate to root.