I wanted a new test environment so re-created two instances on the always free option for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Two things which I could not remember from the last time I did this was that the private key that you download when creating the instance, when you use login vi putty you hit an error.
Basically the private key from OCI, the putty application does not like it, so you have to import and change it to a version that it does. Just need puttygen.
https://www.puttygen.com/convert-pem-to-ppk
Or from the command line -
$ puttygen ssh-key-test.key -o private -o ssh-key-test.ppk
I tend to follow the notes from the excellent Oracle Base website to install Oracle but when using MobaXterm to run say the graphical Oracle Installer, after a fresh build on Oracle OCI instance you need to change the X11UseLocalhost parameter. Worth changing this to use password authentication at the same time so not dependent on using private keys (this is a test box for me so happy with just a password).
public (active)
target: default
icmp-block-inversion: no
interfaces: ens3
sources:
services: dhcpv6-client ssh
ports: tcp/1521 5556/tcp 9001/tcp 7777/tcp 14021/tcp 5557/tcp
protocols:
masquerade: no
forward-ports:
source-ports:
icmp-blocks:
rich rules:
memory_target big integer 0
