Toggle SSH Session using SSH Escape Character

Mar 6, 2010Dipin Krishna2 Commentsssh, toggle ssh

When you’ve logged on to the remotehost using ssh from the localhost, you may want to come back to the localhost to perform some activity and go back to remote host again. In this case, you don’t need to disconnect the ssh session to the remote host. Instead, follow the steps below. 1. Login to

How to generate a SSH key in Linux ( ubuntu debian fedora)

Jan 5, 2010Dipin Krishnagenerate, linux, ssh, ubuntu

To generate a SSH key pair use the command ‘ssh-keygen’. $ ssh-keygen -t dsa This will ask you to enter a file to save the key. The default is ‘.ssh/id_dsa’ in your home directory. Generating public/private dsa key pair.Enter file in which to save the key (/home/dipin/.ssh/id_dsa): Press ‘Enter’ to accept the default.Now it will

SSH login without password

Aug 25, 2009Dipin Krishnalogin, password, ssh

For this you required to generate your own personal set of private/public pair. ssh-keygen is used to generate that key pair for you. On the user’s home directory, on the localhost, type [local-host]$ ssh-keygen -t dsa This will ask you a passphrase. A passphrase is a sequence of words or other text used to control