Tag: putty
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Using Putty with a PPK Key File
Using Putty with a PPK Key File If you have a PPK file that you need to use to connect to a server, say an AWS instance, here’s how. Enter your public DNS name in the Host name field. 2. Expand the Connection branch on the left and then select Auth. 3. Us the Browse…
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Using PuttyKeyGen to generate a PPK file
How to use PuttyKeyGen to generate a PPK file from a PEM file. Download you PEM File from AWS Copy it to a safe location Download either the entire Putty package and install everything, or just get Putty.exe and PuttyGen.exe It can be downloaded from here Open PuttyGen Click file, then load private key Select…
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Unix Terminal Colors
When using a puTTY or terminal window to a Unix server some people like to set the colours of the text or background, some people don’t. Sometimes I like to set the text colour to be like to old school Amber monitors. To do this I use following colour settings RED: 255, GREEN: 128, BLUE:…