PuTTY and SSH

Introduction

Some EAS development activities require that the developer access an EAS Linux VM from their Windows machine to perform certain tasks, for example, to administer an EAS VM, or to perform database queries.  This page describes how to use PuTTY and Secure Shell (SSH) to access an EAS Linux VM from a Windows machine to achieve those ends.

PuTTY

• Install PuTTY
• Generate Private and Public Encryption Keys

SSH

PuTTY can be used to configure and save an SSH session.  Navigate to Chapter 2: Getting started with PuTTY and read this short chapter before attempting to create an SSH session.

• Create an SSH Login Session
• Create an SSH Tunnel Session