Cannot login my koding vm via ssh by putty

Question

I have followed all the instructions on the page but still can not login. Nothing but just a blank black screen without any warnings. I would be glad by any help.

Answer 1

this is how I did it with the help of this guide. You need PuTTYgen from here.

Generating keys

Open PuTTYgen:

• Click on Generate
• Move mouse cursor until it's done
• Save public key (e.g. public-key.txt) and private key (e.g. private-key.ppk) using corresponding buttons.
• From the Public key for pasting into OpenSSH authorized_keys file box, copy its content.
• Close PuTTYgen

From the Koding VM:

• Create file ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
• Open it, paste and save

Alternatively, you can go to your account settings -> SSH keys and past it here.

Connecting with PuTTY

Get your VM address from your Koding workspace:

• On the top left, mouse over koding-vm-0, click on ... that appeared, the VM address is right to Assigned URL, without "http://" (e.g. unkk05c3f84e.joshmurray.koding.io).

Open PuTTY:

• Set Host name (or IP address) as username@VMaddress (e.g. [email protected])

• Go to Connection -> SSH -> Auth Click on Browse, find your .ppk file (e.g. private-key.ppk)

• Go back to Session. Save your session (type a name under and click on Save)

• Click Open to connect

Hope it will help.