diff --git a/components/engine/docs/sources/installation/windows.md b/components/engine/docs/sources/installation/windows.md index 667ce2935d..04f1d28d1e 100644 --- a/components/engine/docs/sources/installation/windows.md +++ b/components/engine/docs/sources/installation/windows.md @@ -57,6 +57,14 @@ Let's try the `hello-world` example image. Run This should download the very small `hello-world` image and print a `Hello from Docker.` message. +# Login with PUTTY instead of using the CMD + +boot2docker generates and uses the public/private key pair in your %HOMEPATH%\.ssh directory so to login you need to use the private key from this same directory. + +The private key needs to be converted into a format that putty can use so for this purpose you can use puttygen +Open puttygen.exe and load the private key from %HOMEPATH%\.ssh\id_boot2docker (File->Load) , +then simply click : Save Private Key. +You can use the saved file to login with putty using docker@127.0.0.1:2022 # Further Details