Linux Up Skill - Day 1

Day 1 – Get to know your server

So it looks like my tasks today are:

• Connect and login remotely to your server
• Run a few simple commands to check the status of your server
• Change your password

Well I’ll jump in to my trusty Putty and connect to my challenge server. Connected.

Reading through this lesson it says the OpenSSH client is a feature in Windows? I had completely forgot! It also mentions Windows Subsystem for Linux. I should probably add both to my desktop. I’m struggling to find where the “Manage Optional Features” has been moved to in Windows 11. Why did it have to move in Windows 11? For those struggling with this it was moved from Apps>Apps & features to Apps>Optional features. Ahh well these are both already installed, I must have done that at some point. Hopefully I can remember they are there going forward. Enough of a tangent, back to the lesson.

I’m running some basic commands like ls, uptime, free, df -h, and uname -a

The lesson moves on to changing your password. It then finishes with customizing your SSH client. I already have Putty how I like it. I like my black background, other colors get distracting. Then I like to color coordinate the text based on location. For remote systems I have access to I keep a white text, and for my own local systems I use green text.

Well that was fun to go through some basic commands again plus I received a nice reminder about OpenSSH and Windows Subsystem for Linux so that’s a bonus!