

Afterwards, make sure that the Type of key to generate is set to RSA and also, you can enter a Key passphrase if you want. Run puttygen.exe and click the Conversions menu item and then click Import key and then select the id_rsa private key file.

The executable file can be found under the Alternative binary files section. If you currently don’t have one, download puttygen.exe here in order to generate one. How did i trouble shoot: SSH into bastion host and then do curl. Set the Private key file to the path of the id_rsa.ppk file. ssh -i /keys/dev.tst -vnNT -L :8890:169.254.76.1:8890 What the problem was: There was no service bound on port 8890 in the target host. Increase or decrease the plink.exe timeout value or just leave the default value.
Ec2 ssh tunnel password#

Under the SSH tunnel tab, do the following: Just hit ENTER if you don’t want to set a passphrase. Afterwards, you’ll be prompted to set a passphrase which is optional. When you’re prompted to “Enter a file in which to save the key”, just press ENTER to accept the default location which is your home directory. ssh folder in your home directory and inside it, a new public/private SSH key pair will be created as well using the provided email address as a label. Ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C command will create a.
