In earlier posts,I had shown how Windows Vista can be setup as a SSH server.
Now,let’s see how we connect using ssh to this configured server.
For this,any ssh client will do,Putty is highly recommended and it is free.
Get the entire pack of Putty for Windows which supports most of the connection types from here.
Install it with administrative privileges and launch the Putty terminal.
Enter the IP address or the host name of the system that you will connect to using Putty.Since we want to access via ssh,the option SSH is selected as connection type,note that port number automatically changes to 22 once this is selected.
Once the IP/host name along with the connection type is entered,it is better if we save this as a session so that going forward we can simply load this session.Here,this is saved as AVP-BOX.
To connect,hit OK.
The following warning message should show up when connecting for the first time :
This ideally should come only when you are connecting to the remote system for the first time because the subsequent logins will have the physical address of the system (the network card which accepts the connections) cached in the client machine’s registry.
This warning also pops up after say a network card of the server is changed thereby changing the original physical address which needs to be cached again on the client system.Anything apart from this can be a potential MITM attack scenario.
The login prompt will ask for the user name and password (ideally administrative privileges),once correctly entered the prompt shows up and you are now managing a remote system via ssh using Putty.
To close the connection,type exit at the prompt.
Enjoy.