Location of key pair in Windows

Hello,

I’m on Windows 10 and everything appears to working fine with regards to the Docker toolkit for Windows. Well, everything is fine as far as I can tell!

Now I’m at the stage where I need to work with a Dockerfile.

It appears that using the GitBash in Windows isn’t going to cut it and to be honest, I’m following the video tutorials and the instructor appears to be using Putty on a Windows machine, so it’s about time I setup connecting to the Docker VM using Putty.

According to the documentation the private key is stored at:

%USERPROFILE%.ssh\id_boot2docker

I can’t find anything at that location.

Any ideas anyone?

Cheers,

Chris.

That boot2docker location is from the deprecated boot2docker cli utility.

If you want to ssh to your VM, your best bet will be to run docker-machine ssh default.

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Hi Thanks for your reply.

Please bear in mind that I’m a complete nooblet!

I think you’re saying that I should run docker-machine ssh default from the Windows Command prompt. Which I did…but there seems to be terminal compatibility issues … the delete key isn’t working very nicely!

Chris

Cygwin to the rescue!!!

With Cygwin things appear to be working well. So I’ll run with that for now.

Many thanks.

Chris.