Monthly Archives: September 2008
How to use putty with ssh keys on Windows
| 05-Sep-2008 | Posted by Sonia Hamilton under Networking, Ssh |
ssh is normally used nowadays instead of telnet for remotely accessing Linux servers (and other devices), as telnet is an insecure plain text protocol (and passwords can be easily captured using tools like dsniff). Most people can usually understand ssh with a username and a password, but when it comes to password-less authentication using keys, they get lost (especially if they’ve only ever used Windows).
So here’s how you do it using putty… (more…)
useful tool – socat
| 04-Sep-2008 | Posted by Sonia Hamilton under Networking |
A useful tool I’ve come across (thanks JB) – socat. As the homepage says, sort of netcat++.
From the manpage: Socat is a command line based utility that establishes two bidirectional byte streams and transfers data between them… the streams can be constructed from a large set of different types of data sinks and sources (TCP, UDP, SOCKS, files, processes, pipes, file-descriptors, readline, …).
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