Remotely logging into the RPi with SSH
We can remotely access the Command Prompt of the RPi board using various software from Windows. We can run all the Linux commands that do not involve the GUI remotely from Windows. As you may recall, we discussed how to enable SSH with the Raspberry Pi Configuration tool in Chapter 1, Introduction to Computer Vision and Raspberry Pi. It enables remote login through SSH.
In order to get started, follow these steps:
- First, we need to install any SSH software available for free. The most popular is PuTTY (https://www.putty.org/). I prefer to use another popular SSH client that comes with SFTP known as the Bitvise SSH client. You can download the installation file for Windows from https://www.bitvise.com/ssh-client-download and install it. After doing that, open the Bitvise SSH client. The following window will appear:
Figure 2.1 – Bitwise Connection window
Enter a hostname, username, and password. The hostname is nothing but the...
