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Logging in to Linux Instance via Tencent Cloud OrcaTerm

Last updated: 2023-08-03 17:46:01

    Overview

    OrcaTerm is a login method recommended by Tencent Cloud. You can use it to directly log in to a Linux instance quickly. It has the following strengths:
    Supports copy and paste.
    Supports scrolling with mouse wheel.
    Note:
    When you create a Linux Lighthouse instance, it will be bound to a key by default. The username of the key is lighthouse, which has the root privileges.
    When you use OrcaTerm to log in to a Linux instance, the system will use the key of the lighthouse username for login by default.

    Supported Systems

    Windows, Linux, or macOS.

    Prerequisites

    Before login, confirm that the firewall of the instance has passed port 22 (which has been enabled by default when the instance was created).

    Directions

    1. Log in to the Lighthouse console.
    2. Find the target instance in the server list and select a login method as desired.
    Click Log in in the instance card in the server list.
    
    
    
    Click the instance card to enter the instance details page and click Log In in Remote Login or in the top-right corner of the page.
    
    For an instance created by using an application image, select Pre-installed application on the instance details page and click Log in in the top-right corner of the page.
    
    The page for successful login is as shown below:
    
    
    After successful login, you can set up low-load lightweight applications with a moderate number of access requests, such as small and middle-sized websites, web applications, blogs, forums, mini games, ecommerce, cloud storage, image hosting, and cloud-based development, testing, and learning environments as instructed in Best Practices.
    The OrcaTerm has a variety of features. You can use the virtual keyboard on the mobile client to change the OrcaTerm appearance, upload/download files, start self-service instance detection, enable multi-session, split the screen, and get the prompts as instructed in More OrcaTerm features.

    Enabling/Disabling OrcaTerm-based quick login

    Note:
    After a Lighthouse instance is created successfully, the OrcaTerm-based quick login feature will be enabled by default. You can disable or enable it again in the following steps:
    1. Log in to the Lighthouse console.
    2. Find the target instance in the server list and enter the instance details page.
    3. In Quick login in Remote login, you can enable or disable OrcaTerm-based quick login as needed:
    Close: If you don't need to use quick login, you can disable it.
    Note:
    After quick login is disabled, you can still use the local SSH client to remotely log in to the instance. You can also enable quick login again.
    After quick login is disabled, the public key (stored under the lighthouse user of the operating system by default) of the default system key won't be deleted at the same time. You can delete the public key by yourself. However, if it is deleted, quick login will not take effect after being enabled again.
    Enable: After quick login is enabled, you can use the default system key to quickly log in to the instance through OrcaTerm in a browser.
    Note:
    Confirm that the public key (stored under the lighthouse user of the operating system by default) of the default system private key is not deleted; otherwise, the quick login feature won't work after being enabled.

    More OrcaTerm features

    OrcaTerm offers a variety of features to ensure a satisfactory user experience.
    OrcaTerm features are described as follows:
    
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