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[Pi IoT] Hangar Central #4

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This installment is about installing and using Putty, an open source terminal emulator. In addition, we will cover creating a user account and managing logins via public/private key authentication. The use of public keys eliminates the need for passwords and, therefore, the issues that come with them. Namely, various password "guessing" or stealing schemes.

 

My recent post [[Pi IoT] Hangar Central #3 -- Unboxing the Challenge Kit] received such rave reviews that I decided to continue in the video blogging realm. Today's episode is just shy of 10-minutes and should set you up to access your Raspberry Pi using SSH with public key authentication. Grab your coffee, tea, or might I recommend Tazo Chai Classic Latte. Regardless, and without further delay...

 

In keeping with my habit of telling you how a post was put together, this episode was recorded using Screencast-O-Matic (https://screencast-o-matic.com). I ended up spring for the Pro version at $15USD, but it's still quite a bit less expensive than my preferred Camtasia (https://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html) which will set you back a cool $299USD. Final production was, once again, with Microsoft Movie Maker (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/14220/windows-movie-maker-download). And, so you did not have to listen to my voice alone, the keyclick comes from ClicKey (https://www.grc.com/freeware/clickey.htm).

 

I hope you find this useful, informative, or entertaining.

 

Rick

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  • Good presentation, Rick.  It was very informative.  It's worthwhile to note that since the pi user has sudo access, a bad guy could break in using the pi user login (with publicly known password! -- raspberry) and re-enable password logins for the control user as well as change the password, etc.  So, in the end your Raspberry Pi is only as secure as your sudo user accounts. 

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  • Good presentation, Rick.  It was very informative.  It's worthwhile to note that since the pi user has sudo access, a bad guy could break in using the pi user login (with publicly known password! -- raspberry) and re-enable password logins for the control user as well as change the password, etc.  So, in the end your Raspberry Pi is only as secure as your sudo user accounts. 

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