Utilities

1. Prerequisites You need to have PuTTY installed.You need to have a public/private key pair already generated.The public key needs to be installed on your device (TrueNAS Scale) 2. Configure PuTTY to use public/private key authorization. Start Putty and enter the IP address (or hostname) of your device. Then in the left pane click on […]

1. Prerequisites Install PuTTY on a Windows device. (Follow my guide here.)  2. Start PuTTYgen Start PuTTYgen (this will have been installed as part of the PuTTY install)  3. Choose the type of key to generate The choice here is between RSA and EdDSA, the trade-off is between performance and compatibility. RSA is universally supported

This post describes how to use PuTTY on a Windows PC to access a Linux device using the SSH protocol. 1. Install PuTTY PuTTY an be downloaded from here. Download the appropriate .msi file. (If you are not sure which version you require check out the FAQ here.) Install in the usual way, It is