A couple of days ago I installed Cygwin because I wanted a way to run UNIX applications in Windows. Cygwin sets up a UNIX-like directory with the root, /, wherever it is that you install it (by default, C:\cygwin). Example of usage: to get SSH access to my server, I normally use PuTTY. But after I [...]

Today I had to re-generate my key files for OpenSSH authentication. Between August and now I had forgotten how exactly that is done. So for next time this happens, here are detailed step-by-step instructions: 1) plug FAT32-formatted USB stick into PC-BSD laptop; it will be automatically mounted as /media/fattie 2) from terminal window, do this: [...]