Check the Copy to Clipboard in RTF as well as plain text box.

Open the PuTTY application to access the initial configuration options.

To enable this feature, do the following: Setting PuTTY to Copy in Rich Text Formatīy default, PuTTY doesn’t copy the formatting information included with the Rich Text Format as it can be inconvenient for its users.

The text copied from PuTTY now appears in Windows.

Right-click and select Paste or press Ctrl+V.Left-click on the destination Windows application where the pasting will occur.Holding down the left mouse button, drag your cursor across the text to select it, then release the button to copy it.Left-click inside the PuTTY terminal window near the text you want to copy.

Unlike Windows, it’s best to specify whether you want an RSA key or something like Ed25519. Open up Windows Terminal or the built-in Ubuntu command prompt (assuming you installed Ubuntu Linux). Why would you want to do this? If you primarily live in Linux for command line duties then it just makes sense to keep your keys in WSL. In fact, it’s basically the same as with the Command Prompt version. If you’re a WSL user, you can use a similar method with your WSL install. RELATED: How PowerShell Differs From the Windows Command Prompt Option 2: Generate Keys in WSL

When you upgrade to a new PC you need to move those keys with your other files or risk losing access to your servers and accounts, at least temporarily. Just remember that the more keys you have, the more keys you have to manage. You can do that as many times as you like. You’d follow the same process as above, but when it came time to save your key you’d just give it a different name such as “id_rsa_github” or something similar. Say, for example, you wanted to use the default keys we just generated for a server you have on Digital Ocean, and you wanted to create another set of keys for GitHub. If you wanted to create multiple keys for different sites that’s easy too.

Note: If you can’t see your “.ssh” folder in File Explorer, check out our tutorial on how to show hidden files and folders in Windows.

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