You may find yourself in a situation where for some odd reason you can’t connect via your trusted Putty or WinSCP client. With the release of Ubuntu 22, many suddenly found themselves scratching their heads to a strange key error upon connection attempts. Luckily, AWS does offer a little known way to SSH through your… Continue reading AWS Console SSH Web Connect
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How to generate a PPK file for SSH and SFTP
Converting Your PEM to PPK Using PuTTYgen [For aMiSTACX and Windows Clients] Note: For AWS quick PPK key file creation, see this post. PuTTY does not natively support the private key format (.pem) generated by the AWS console for SSH to EC2s. PuTTY has a tool named PuTTYgen, which can convert keys to the required… Continue reading How to generate a PPK file for SSH and SFTP
WinSCP Sudo Access for Ubuntu on AWS
Important! Make sure you have the latest WinSCP and Putty clients; otherwise, Ubuntu 22 will flag an SSH key error. Post upgrade you will also need to flush the session cache using the client’s tools. You can validate your keys with the AWS SSH connect. Note: We do NOT support SFTP client FileZilla for Ubuntu Linux, because it requires altering… Continue reading WinSCP Sudo Access for Ubuntu on AWS