[winswitch] How to connect using ssh when I have to specify the private key file?

Antoine Martin antoine at nagafix.co.uk
Wed Dec 24 13:45:30 GMT 2014


On 24/12/14 17:16, Heng Zhou wrote:
> Hi, I tried to use xpra on Amazon EC2 ubuntu instance. But to connect to
> this instance using ssh, Amazon requires that we have to specify the
> private key (identity) file using -i parameter, and this is the only way to
> connect to it through ssh. So how should I write the ssh parameter in the
> "xpra attach" command line for which it seems that only
> ssh:SERVERUSERNAME at SERVERHOST:100 form is allowed.
Use the "--ssh=ssh -i YOURKEYFILE" command line option.
> As an alternative, if I plan to connect to EC2 instance using TCP, how to
> let the xpra server specify the TCP port?
This is covered in the man page, the "xpra --help" information, the
wiki, etc..

Cheers
Antoine



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