This guide explains how to establish the first SSH connection on your Cloud VPS / Lite VPS.

Run a command with root privileges...

From a terminal application (command-line interface, CLI / Command Line Interface) on your device, for example the application PuTTY (to download and install on Windows) or Terminal (installed by default on macOS), run sudo -i to load the full root environment, giving you a complete interactive session as root with the personal directory and root environment variables.

... on macOS or Linux

To connect, you must open a Terminal window and run the following command:

ssh -i [key path] [user]@[server]

• [key path] = link to the file containing the private key; as a reminder, when ordering your Cloud VPS / Lite VPS, you were invited to generate a key pair or upload your own public key (permissions must be sufficient, 0700 for example)
• [user] = see below for default usernames
• [server] = server's IPv4 address (indicated on the Manager)

Example: ssh -i c:/path/key ubuntu@192.168.1.1

If you encounter the error "WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE!", run the command chmod 400 [key path].

... on Windows

Windows does not allow SSH connections natively: enable the Bash shell (Windows 10 minimum) or download the following two free software: PuTTY & PuTTYgen

To begin, your private key must be converted to be used with PuTTY.

To do this, open PuTTYgen and click the "Load" button to load your private key. Then save your private key using the "Save private key" button.

Now open PuTTY and provide the following elements:

Under Session (in the left sidebar):

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• [HostName] = server IPv4 address (indicated on the Manager)

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• [Port] = leave the default port, i.e. 22

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• [Connection type] = specify here “SSH”

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Under Connection / SSH / Auth (in the left sidebar):

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• open your private key generated via PuTTYgen using the “Browse” button under “Private key file for authentication”
• click the “Open” button at the bottom of the window, a terminal will open and ask for your username (user = see below)

Default username [user] for unmanaged Cloud servers with:

Linux distributions table