Month: February 2021

Using public key authentication for services like ssh and scp is easy. Generate your keys (on the client) Deploy the public key to the server Authenticate automatically The details are tricky. WinSCP needs another format. OpenSSH format is not recognized by all tools. You have two keys, how do you specify which to use? There… Continue reading Enabling public key authentication

Assuming commands should be executed on a remote computer using ssh these commands have to be available in the PATH variable. This is not a problem with locally installed tools and commands on Linux systems but when custom programs should be executed this can get a little bit tricky. When you log in as a… Continue reading Making applications available in non-login shells