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cloud engineer

Windows

Convert PPK to PEM

Convert PPK to PEM format.

  1. Open Puttygen.
  2. Click Load in the Actions section.
  3. Select the PPK file you wish to convert.
  4. Go to the Conversions menu and select Export OpenSSH key.
  5. Click Yes to convert key without a password.
  6. Name your private key and save it with a .pem extension.
  7. Click Save.

Your pem file should begin with “—–BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY—–” and ends with “—–END RSA PRIVATE KEY—–.”

You can also use puttygen in Linux. Install it first.

$ sudo apt-get install putty-tools

Convert your key.

$ puttygen yourkey.ppk -O private-openssh -o yourkey.pem

SSH to your server.

$ chmod 400 yourkey.pem
$ ssh -i yourkey.pem ec2-user@server-ip

GitBash Path

Open Git Bash. Change to the root directory of Git Bash.

cd ~
echo $PATH
/bin:/c/Program Files (x86)/Google/Cloud SDK/google-cloud-sdk/bin

Edit .bash_profile or .bashrc. It was .bash_profile in my case. Showing a truncated path.

Add your custom path to the PATH variable. Save file. Exit Git Bash.

PATH="/bin:/c/Program Files (x86)/Google/Cloud SDK/google-cloud-sdk/bin:/c/custom/path"

Open Git Bash again and check your updated Path.

echo $PATH

Result.

/bin:/c/Program Files (x86)/Google/Cloud SDK/google-cloud-sdk/bin:/c/custom/path

Adding New Users in Powershell

Here’s an easy way to add Windows users in Powershell.

net user username 'password' /add

Passwords must meet requirements. While you are at it, give it Admin rights.

net localgroup Administrators username /add