Criggie has set up a ssh server called horse for use by CLUG members. I find it a useful service and recommend it.
Joining is not straightforward as Criggie requires you to generate a private-public key pair for authentication. It may seem an intimidating process at fist glance but OpenSSH the most widely used implementation provides a tool called ssh-keygen to generate these keys. There are good step by step tutorials available on the web. You may also wish to connect to the SSH server using the open source client PuTTY on windows boxes. Rather than bombarding Criggie with separate keys for each of your windows boxes you can export your private key for PuTTY to use on its box. There is file format incomparability problem when using a ssh-keygen key on PuTTY but it can be resolved by reading the instructions in the PuTTY help file Find the instructions by following this path in the help file; Help --> Contents --> Using public keys for SSH authentication --> Using PuTTYgen the PuTTY key generator --> Dealing with private keys in other formats. Cheers Ross Drummond _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
