User's Guide

SSH Console
A workstation (Mac, Linux, Window), on the same wifi network as the OVMS module, can use
the ssh protocol to connect. In Windows you can use the free PUTTY ssh client. In Linux and
OSX ssh is built-in.
The syntax is simply:
ssh user@ip
Where ‘user’ is the username (normally ‘ovms’) and ‘ip’ is the IP address of the OVMS v3
module. In environments supporting mDNS networking, you should also be able to connect
using the mDNS name <vehicleid>.local. The password you enter is the module password.
If you use ssh public/private key pairs, you can store your public key on the OVMS v3 module,
to take advantage of passwordless login.
OVMS# config set ssh.keys <user> <public-key>
In this case, ‘user’ is the username you use to ssh, and the public key is your RSA public key
(the long base64 blob of text you find in id-rsa.pub between ‘ssh-rsa’ and your
username/comment).
You can also use SCP to copy files to and from the OVMS v3 VFS.
A note about OpenSSH: with version 6.6, cipher aes128-cbc has been disabled by default and
needs to be enabled manually, either on the command line:
ssh -c aes128-cbc user@ip
…or by adding a host entry to your ~/.ssh/config.
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