{"id":750,"date":"2007-03-23T15:47:15","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T15:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/03\/secure-remote-administration-of-a-linux-computer-from-within-windows.htm"},"modified":"2007-03-23T16:12:56","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T16:12:56","slug":"secure-remote-administration-of-a-linux-computer-from-within-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/03\/secure-remote-administration-of-a-linux-computer-from-within-windows.htm","title":{"rendered":"Secure, remote administration of a Linux computer from within Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/03\/secure-remote-administration-of-a-mac-os-x-computer-from-within-windows.htm\">using SSH to securely connect to a Mac from a Windows PC<\/a>.  At the time, I suggested that the advice should be equally applicable to a Linux system, or even to a Windows Server with an SSH server installed and I&#8217;ve since tested it with a Linux machine (running Fedora Core 5).<\/p>\n<p>The Linux process is almost identical to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/03\/secure-remote-administration-of-a-mac-os-x-computer-from-within-windows.htm\">my original post for Mac OS X<\/a>, except that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The sshd_config file is found in \/etc\/ssh.<\/li>\n<li>SSH is enabled in the firewall using the <code>system-config-securitylevel<\/code> command.<\/li>\n<li>The SSH deamon is restarted using the <code>service sshd restart<\/code> command.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gnomejournal.org\/article\/29\/remote-desktop-administration-using-vino\">GNOME includes a VNC server called vino, which needs to be enabled<\/a> (users of other graphical environments will need to choose an alternative VNC server).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Also&#8230; RTFM&#8230; I spent a lot of time trying to work out why I couldn&#8217;t connect, only to find that I&#8217;d neglected to place the public key in ~\/.ssh\/authorized_keys).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtoforge.com\/ssh_key_based_logins_putty\">Falko Timme has written an excellent tutorial on key-based SSH logins with PuTTY<\/a>  which outlines all the key steps (in fact, if I knew that existed then I wouldn&#8217;t have spent so much time writing up the process here!) but <a href=\"http:\/\/sial.org\/howto\/openssh\/publickey-auth\/\">Jeremy Mates&#8217; OpenSSH public key authentication<\/a> article includes <a href=\"http:\/\/sial.org\/howto\/openssh\/publickey-auth\/problems\/\">a useful troubleshooting guide for public key authentication problems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>VNC is all very well for forwarding the entire desktop, but X11 forwarding can be used to run individual <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X_Window_System\">X applications<\/a> on the Windows machine.  Because Microsoft Windows doesn&#8217;t include an X Window server, it is necessary to download an X11 port for Windows &#8211; I used <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/xming\">XMing<\/a>.  Once XMing (and the XMing fonts) were installed and running, I edited my PuTTY connection to enable X11 forwarding and ensured that the sshd_config file on the Linux box included <code>X11Forwarding yes<\/code> (that was the default on my Fedora Core 5 installation) and could launch an xapplication from within the PuTTY terminal window with <code>xapplicationname &amp;<\/code> (e.g. <code>xeyes &amp;<\/code>) (<a href=\"http:\/\/tldp.org\/HOWTO\/XDMCP-HOWTO\/ssh.html\">I found this information at the Linux Documentation Project<\/a>). XEyes is nothing special, so how about running a Linux application on the Windows desktop&#8230; try <code>mozilla &amp;<\/code> or <code>gimp &amp;<\/code> &#8211; it feels &#8220;wrong&#8221; but it&#8217;s also pretty impressive and oh so &#8220;right&#8221; at the same time!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/x11-xp.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Using XMing to run X11 applications on a Windows XP machine\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I wrote about using SSH to securely connect to a Mac from a Windows PC. At the time, I suggested that the advice should be equally applicable to a Linux system, or even to a Windows Server with an SSH server installed and I&#8217;ve since tested it with a Linux machine (running Fedora Core &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/03\/secure-remote-administration-of-a-linux-computer-from-within-windows.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Secure, remote administration of a Linux computer from within Windows<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3,33,53,43,39,16],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linux","tag-windows","tag-remote-access","tag-security","tag-useful-software","tag-useful-websites"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Secure, remote administration of a Linux computer from within Windows - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/03\/secure-remote-administration-of-a-linux-computer-from-within-windows.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Secure, remote administration of a Linux computer from within Windows - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yesterday I wrote about using SSH to securely connect to a Mac from a Windows PC. 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