Right click on the icon in the toolbar (after clicking on the arrow), and select “add key”:-īrowse to where you private key is located – USB stick or local disk. Run pageant.exe – it will appear as an icon in your tool bar:.

Download “pageant.exe” – it is a putty ssh agent and can be used to store your private key.You can now use Putty to authenticate to any new VM’s that you create:. (You now have an authentication system which comprises of “something you have” – your private key, and “something you know”, your password. Take note of your password in whatever method you use to store passwords safely. Save this file somewhere safe – and make a copy of it somewhere safe (like a USB stick). Once filled in, click on the “save private key”. (Do not make this empty – it must have a password for security reasons!). In Putty Key Generator – Enter a Key passphrase – this is the password you need to unlock access to your private key. Paste your public key into the field displayed :. Login as usual to this Web interface, then click on your login id in the Top Right Hand Side corner:. Save the public key - you need to copy this key and paste it into the.

The default settings should be fine (ssh-2 RSA) and 2048 length. This will create a “public” and “Private” key. Tools like Putty and Filezilla are commonly used for this purpose.įor Putty and for Filezilla to connect to an Openstack Virtual Machine, you need to generate a “key pair” - which you do with PuTTYgen. Most users often want to use a command line prompt, and be able to transfer files to and from their desktop machine to the virtual Linux host they are using.

Using Putty and Filezilla to connect to an Openstack Virtual machines ¶

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