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Getting started
in Windows
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Modified: 13 Dec 2022 21:28 UTC

Improving security using two-factor On Windows, you can create SSH keys in many ways.
authentication (2FA)
This document explains how to use two SSH
Generating an SSH key applications, PuTTY and Git Bash.
Generating an SSH key automatically
We recommend ECDSA or RSA keys. DSA keys are
Generating an SSH key manually
supported, but not recomended.
Manually generating your SSH key in
macOS
PuTTY
Manually generating your SSH key in
Windows
PuTTY is an SSH client for Windows. You can use PuTTY
Payment and billing to generate SSH keys. PuTTY is a free open-source
Provisioning limits terminal emulator that functions much like the Terminal
application in macOS in a Windows environment. This
Contacting MNX support
section shows you how to manually generate and
Cancelling your account upload an SSH key when working with PuTTY in the
Containers and virtual machines
Windows environment.

API integrations and CLI usage

About PuTTY
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Triton Volumes PuTTY is an SSH client for Windows that you will use to
generate your SSH keys. You can download PuTTY from
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When you install the PuTTY client, you also install the
Triton Operator Documentation
PuTTYgen utility. PuTTYgen is what you will use to
Triton images generate your SSH key for a Windows VM.
Triton Compute Glossary
This page gives you basic information about
APIs using PuTTY and PuTTYgen to log in to your
Docker provisioned machine. For more information

CloudAPI on PuTTY, see the PuTTY documentation

Manta Generating an SSH key

To generate an SSH key with PuTTYgen, follow these

steps:
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1. Open the PuTTYgen program.

2. For Type of key to generate, select SSH-2 RSA.

3. Click the Generate button.

4. Move your mouse in the area below the progress

bar. When the progress bar is full, PuTTYgen
generates your key pair.

5. Type a passphrase in the Key passphrase field. Type

the same passphrase in the Confirm passphrase
field. You can use a key without a passphrase, but
this is not recommended.

6. Click the Save private key button to save the private

key. You must save the private key. You will need
it to connect to your machine.

7. Right-click in the text field labeled Public key for

pasting into OpenSSH authorized_keys file and
choose Select All.

8. Right-click again in the same text field and choose

Copy.
Importing your SSH key

Now you must import the copied SSH key to the portal.

1. After you copy the SSH key to the clipboard, return to

your account page.

2. Choose to Import Public Key and paste your SSH

key into the Public Key field.

3. In the Key Name field, provide a name for the key.

Note: although providing a key name is optional, it is
a best practice for ease of managing multiple SSH
keys.

4. Add the key. It will now appear in your table of keys

under SSH.

PuTTY and OpenSSH use different formats of public

SSH keys. If the text you pasted in the SSH Key starts
with —— BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY , it is in the wrong
format. Be sure to follow the instructions carefully. Your
key should start with ssh-rsa AAAA… .

Once you upload your SSH key to the portal, you can
connect to your virtual machine from Windows through
a PuTTY session.

Git Bash

The Git installation package comes with SSH. Using Git

Bash, which is the Git command line tool, you can
generate SSH key pairs. Git Bash has an SSH client that
enables you to connect to and interact with Triton
containers on Windows.

To install Git:
 1. (Download and initiate the Git installer](https://git-
scm.com/download/win).

2. When prompted, accept the default components by

clicking Next.

3. Choose the default text editor. If you have

Notepad++ installed, select Notepad++ and click
Next.

4. Select to Use Git from the Windows Command

Prompt and click Next.

5. Select to Use OpenSSL library and click Next.

6. Select to Checkout Windows-style, commit Unix-

style line endings and click Next.

7. Select to Use MinTTY (The default terminal of

mYSYS2) and click Next.

8. Accept the default extra option configuration by

clicking Install.

When the installation completes, you may need to

restart Windows.

Launching GitBash

To open Git Bash, we recommend launching the

application from the Windows command prompt:

1. In Windows, press Start+R to launch the Run dialog.

2. Type C:\Program Files\Git\bin\bash.exe and

press Enter.

Generating SSH keys

First, create the SSH directory and then generate the SSH
key pair.

One assumption is that the Windows profile you are

using is set up with administrative privileges. Given this,
you will be creating the SSH directory at the root of your
profile, for example:

C:\Users\joetest
1. At the Git Bash command line, change into your root
directory and type.

mkdir .ssh

2. Change into the .ssh directory

C:\Users\joetest\.ssh

3. To create the keys, type:

ssh-keygen.exe

4. When prompted for a password, type apassword to

complete the process. When finished, the output
looks similar to:

Ssh-keygen.exe
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/c/Us
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase)
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /c/U
Your public key has been saved in /c/Users
The key fingerprint is:
SHA256:jieniOIn20935n0awtn04n002HqEIOnTIOn
The key's randomart image is:

+---[RSA 2048]----+
|*= =+. |
|O*=.B |
|+*o* + |
|o +o. . |
| ooo + S |
| .o.ooo* o |
| .+o+*oo . |
| .=+.. |
| Eo |
+----[SHA256]-----+

$ dir .ssh
id_rsa id_rsa.pub
Uploading an SSH key

To upload the public SSH key to your Triton account:

1. Open Triton Service portal, select Account to open

the Account Summary page.

2. From the SSH section, select Import Public Key.

3. Enter a Key Name. Although naming a key is

optional, labels are a best practice for managing
multiple SSH keys.

4. Add your public SSH key.

When Triton finishes the adding or uploading process,

the public SSH key appears in the list of SSH keys.

What are my next steps?

Adding SSH keys to agent.

Set up the Triton CLI and CloudAPI on Windows.

Set up the Triton CLI and CloudAPI.

Create an instance in the Triton Service Portal.

Set up the triton-docker command line tool.

Visit PuTTYgen to learn more about the PuTTYgen

and to see the complete installation and usage guide.