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Before getting started with this little tip, I just wanted to drop a short note to you all to let you know that James and I have not abandoned the blog. We have just taken an “unannounced” three month vacation. Or you could say that “life happened” to us both and three months slipped by.

I have been trying to find the time to put together something really impressive after being out for so long, but I have decided it is better to just get back to work. As a way of getting back into the swing of things, I thought I would do a small writeup on an IOS feature that I recently stumbled across. I have known for a while that it is possible to pass commands between Linux machines via ssh by simply adding a command to the end of the ssh command string. I recently tried it on a router and to my surprise … it worked. Cool!

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This tutorial combines a couple previous tutorials: Automatic configuration backups with ftp and How To use SCP with Cisco routers.

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PEMU is a Cisco Pix Firewall Emulator based on QEMU open source machine emulator and virtualizer. The original author of the Linux version is known as ‘mmm123′ on the hacki forum . Now, the amazing PEMU software has been ported to windows by a different user on the hacki forum known as ‘melifaro’. 

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This tutorial will show you how to enable ssh on a cisco router. In order to use ssh for terminal access, you must have an image that supports encryption. Sometimes, but not always, the encryption feature set can be recognized by the ‘k9′ in the image name. Click Image to play tutorial:

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This tutorial will show you how to install and configure openssh on a windows box. Uses for an ssh server on a windows machine include secure file copies and secure browsing.

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References:

http://digitalmediaminute.com/article/1487/setting-up-a-sftp-server-on-windows

If using OpenSSH for SCP or SFTP, you will need to prefix paths with /cygdrive/

Example: c:\backup = /cygdrive/c/backup

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For Linux administrators that use Windows for their desktop OS, Putty is an invaluble tool. This tutorial will help you save time administering your servers without having to login to provide a username and password each time.

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This tutorial will help you save time administering your servers without having to login to provide a username and password. I use it to execute remote commands or scripts on a remote server.

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