Setting up the Configuration
Environment
Figure 78: Security alert prompt for the fingerprint
Check the fingerprint to protect yourself from unwelcome guests. Your
fingerprint is located in the "Key" frame of the PuTTY key generator
fig. 77)
If the fingerprint matches your key, click "Yes".
PuTTY will display another security alert message for the warning threshold
set.
Figure 79: Security alert prompt for the warning threshold set
Click "Yes" for this security alert message.
To suppress this message for future connection set-ups, select "SSH" in the
"Category" frame before you set up a connection in PuTTY. In the
"Encryption options" frame, select "DES" and then click "Up" until "DES" is
above the line "---warn below here --". In the "Category" frame, go back to
Session and set up a connection in the usual way.
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A.4 Preparing Access via SSH
Basic Configuration
(see
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