Tag Archives: ssh

Tabs in PuTTY

When hanging out in Windows land, life is pretty rough without PuTTY. And while PuTTY is awesome, it too is missing a few nice features. One noticeable default lack is the inability to open multiple tabs with sessions in a … Continue reading

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PuTTY + Launchy = FTW

I had some problems using Launchy on Vista a while ago (slow, crashed), but the latest version has been working like Ajax on the plains of Scamander. I won’t go into the details of Launchy here, as much has been … Continue reading

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Tortoise and SSH key authentication

While setting up Tortoise recently, I couldn’t easily find how to tell it I wanted to use keys for SSH authentication. This post helpfully described how Tortoise actually uses PuTTY for its SSH connections, and how to get key-based auth … Continue reading

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Easier Sharing: SSHFS

My last post was on how I used Samba to share files from my central media server to other machines on my local network. Seemed great at first, but having used it for a little while, I was rather disappointed. … Continue reading

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More Tasty Tips for DenyHosts

After living with DenyHosts for some time, I have made some additional configuration changes that are quite helpful. Whitelist known good IPsI found after not very long that my home IP address had been added to my webserver’s hosts.deny file … Continue reading

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