I have successfully enabled password-less ssh login to a remote server, say example.com with username user. But when I use lftp to log on the sftp by lftp sftp://user@example.com it still asks my password. How it make lftp use my private key to logon the remote lftp server? There is a little trick to make
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Shared hosting services with SSH enabled
Posted onWhich shared hosting services have SSH enabled? SSH is a great tool for management and development. Lots shared hosting services support SSH. Here is a non-complete list: Dreamhost SSH on dreamhost: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Enabling_Shell_Access BlueHost SSH on BlueHost: http://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/180 GoDaddy SSH on GoDaddy: http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/4942 HostGator SSH on HostGator: http://support.hostgator.com/articles/hosting-guide/lets-get-started/how-do-i-get-and-use-ssh-access HostMonster SSH on HostMonster: http://my.hostmonster.com/cgi/help/180 ServerGrove SSH on
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A List of Common Software on Windows
Posted onQuick links to some useful software on Windows including Web browsers, Video/audio player and ssh/scpsftp/vnc tools for connecting to Linux. ssh/scp/sftp/vnc for connecting to Linux For Linux users, it is sometimes unavoidably to use Windows. With Windows, the Linux users will need to connect to Linux for some tasks. Some general software are needed. The
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How to SSH to Linux Hosts for Beginners
Posted onThis is a simple tutorial for beginners to SSH to a Linux host. This is quite easy with the easy-to-use software freely available but the beginners need a tutorials to start with. Hence, I write this tutorial about how to ssh to a Linux host. This tutorial is for users on Windows. 1. Download a
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Open Source and Portable SSH, SCP, SFTP and VNC Clients for Windows to Remote Control Linux
Posted onssh, scp, sftp and vnc are frequently used tools (both servers and clients) on Linux. We may want to remote control a Linux box from Windows such as when we make demostration in a meeting while our work are done on the Linux box. There are lots open source SSH, SCP, SFTP and VNC clients for
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