How to read iPhone files without jailbreaking?

I’d like to access files in an iPhone, such as using remotely connecting via ssh and telnet. But it appears that the iPhone’s ssh or telnet are not supported. I can ping it, but cannot use telnet or ssh. I read through some internet article, it appears that using jailbreak or Cydia it is doable, … Read more

Convert PEM to PPK file format

Use PuTTYGen Creating and Using SSH Keys Overview vCloud Express now has the ability to create SSH Keys for Linux servers. This function will allow the user to create multiple custom keys by selecting the “My Account/Key Management” option. Once the key has been created the user will be required to select the desired SSH Key … Read more

Starting ssh-agent on Windows 10 fails: “unable to start ssh-agent service, error :1058”

Yeah, as others have suggested, this error seems to mean that ssh-agent is installed but its service (on windows) hasn’t been started. You can check this by running in Windows PowerShell: And then check the output of status is not running. Then check that the service has been disabled by running I suggest setting the service … Read more

How to scp in Python?

What’s the most pythonic way to scp a file in Python? The only route I’m aware of is which is a hack, and which doesn’t work outside Linux-like systems, and which needs help from the Pexpect module to avoid password prompts unless you already have passwordless SSH set up to the remote host. I’m aware … Read more