Tools and utilities to support your home lab, including SSH clients and key management.
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 authentication. Start PuTTY and enter the IP address (or hostname) of your device. Then, in the left pane, click on […]
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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
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This guide walks you through installing PuTTY and making your first SSH connection to a Linux device. Before you start, you’ll need: A Windows PC A Linux device on the same local network (e.g. a Raspberry Pi, TrueNAS box, or any Linux server) The IP address of that device — check your router’s admin page
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