We can use PowerShell as a SSH client. If your SSH server requires key authentication, you can use the following command to add your private key before you could establish the SSH connection.
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In the past, i usually integrate SVN with Apache such that i could access the SVN repository through the HTTP protocol.
Apache and SVN Integration
I could use TortoiseSVN to checkout the SVN repository with correct username and password. But sometimes, we need to use SVN+SSH to access the SVN repository. Here are the steps using SSH key authentication.
1. Add your private key in pageant.exe.
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My server was hacked. ToT
One day i found that i couldn’t login the server thru SSH and the CPU usage jumped to 100% for more than 12 hours. Finally i could login as root and found that a new user R00T was created and the SSH service was restarted with all settings in the sshd config file commented out. =.=
So from now on i will use Key Authentication instead of simple Password Authentication. Here is a very useful guide on Linode.com which shows you how to secure your server.
Linode Library – Securing Your Server
In order to use the Key Authentication, you need to generate the private key and public key on your desktop/labtop computers. This is straight forward if you are a Mac or Linux user who could use the ssh-keygen command. But for Windows user, you have to use 3rd party program like PuTTYgen. I suggest using WinSCP + PuTTY.
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Eureka! 