I use putty to connect to a linux box running ssh1 that is home to my appache web server. I have just started playing around with this, and I can't seem to figure out how to delete files on the server. I have read all the documentation I can find, and all I come up with is how to do it with psftp. Well, psftp only works with ssh2. So, how can I use putty or pscp to delete files remotely through ssh1.
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Deleting files remotely with Putty?
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danielhozac
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rm -f <filename>Putty creates a shell on the remote system using the permissions of the user. You may need to su to root to have the permission to delete the files. Pscp is nothing more than putty's version of scp run at a command prompt (DOS). You can copy files back and forth as long as the pscp user has the permission to do so. You may need to create an identity with putty-keygen and cat that file into the identity.pub on the remote machine in the /root/.ssh directory. That will use the root permissions for file copying and also for putty to eliminate the su step.
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