From 948f33263e95997a9c6596d695c92ab03c630899 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Krasimir Georgiev Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 20:08:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Changing the windows installation doc to include instructions how to login using putty instead of CMD Signed-off-by: Krasimir Georgiev Docker-DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Krasimir Georgiev (github: SvenDowideit) --- docs/sources/installation/windows.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/sources/installation/windows.md b/docs/sources/installation/windows.md index 667ce2935..04f1d28d1 100644 --- a/docs/sources/installation/windows.md +++ b/docs/sources/installation/windows.md @@ -57,6 +57,14 @@ Let's try the `hello-world` example image. Run This should download the very small `hello-world` image and print a `Hello from Docker.` message. +# Login with PUTTY instead of using the CMD + +boot2docker generates and uses the public/private key pair in your %HOMEPATH%\.ssh directory so to login you need to use the private key from this same directory. + +The private key needs to be converted into a format that putty can use so for this purpose you can use puttygen +Open puttygen.exe and load the private key from %HOMEPATH%\.ssh\id_boot2docker (File->Load) , +then simply click : Save Private Key. +You can use the saved file to login with putty using docker@127.0.0.1:2022 # Further Details