Tutorials and How-tos/Access Server via SSH
Putty
A good Windows ssh client is Putty, available here: www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html.
- Download, install and start Putty.
- In Putty, type: bubba as host name, and press "Open". If a question about keys appear, press "yes".
- At the prompt, log in using your normal Bubba user (root and admin aren't allowed to log in for security reasons). Note that you have to enable "ssh login" for that user, this is done in the web administration interface, click "users".
Logged in via ssh
Now you have a prompt in the Linux shell, with user privileges. You may need root privileges to access some files, to get that, type su and use excito as password. Again, note that this gives full access to the entire file system, you now have the power to mess the entire installation up, requiring a full re-install. Be careful.
Examples
Here are some basic examples.
To edit the Debian sources file, type:
nano /etc/apt/sources.list
To view the mail error messages, type:
cat /var/log/mail.err
WinSCP
For windows users that are a bit uncomfortable with navigating in the SSH console and dealing w<span id="fck_dom_range_temp_1274708461587_507" />ith the vaiour Linux commands the WinSCP application is a killer.
It provides intuitive tree-navigation and comes with internal text editor.