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PuTTY is a free open source SSH/Telnet terminal emulation program for Windows and Unix like operating systems.

PuTTY is a free open source SSH/Telnet terminal emulation program for Windows and Unix like operating systems. PuTTY terminal emulation is xterm compatible and configurable. PuTTY can also be used to tunnel X11 over a secure link.

There are a suite of programs available for use with PuTTY:

PuttyGen: A tool for generating public key encryption pairs for use with PuTTY and OpenSSH.

Pageant: the PuTTY Authentication Agent used for storing Keys and providing them when requested to PuTTY utilities.

PSFTP: An SFTP clinet.

PCSP: A command line scp clinet.

PLINK: A command line connection utility similar to ssh that can be used for automating connections and tasks.

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How to recover from "Too many Authentication Failures for user root"

I've done several attempts to establish SSH-connecton for user root@host using putty terminal. While doing so I specified wrong credentials several times and after that I've specified them correctly, and then after the credentials were accepted the…
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How to make PuTTY settings persistent?

Some PuTTY settings are valid only for the current session, and when I start it again, they are at the default value again. How can I change the default values?
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How to fix PuTTY showing garbled characters?

Connecting from a Windows 7 PC via SSH to an Ubuntu server using PuTTY, I get some screen errors: I.e. it: "Double-draws" the selection inside Midnight Commander (MC). Other characters like line elements are drawn as the wrong characters (e.g. "â"…
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Is there a way to permanently set the font and window size in PuTTY?

When I log in with PuTTY, I always have to: change settings appearance font change 8 resize window so that I can see enough text to work with the log files. I don't see where I can save these settings to my saved session. Is this…
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PSCP: Upload an entire folder, Windows to Linux

I am using PSCP to upload some files from Windows to Linux. I can do it fine just uploading one file at a time. But I have some very large directories and I want to upload an entire directory at once. I have tried: pscp -i…
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putty and screen and scroll-back buffer

When I use screen inside a putty session, I can't seem to use the scrollback buffer of putty to look at whatever just scrolled off the screen. Instead, I just see what was happening in the putty session just prior to my running screen. What am I…
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Using ctrl-arrow keys with PuTTY and screen

I searched and couldn't find a solution for this anywhere. I'm using PuTTY from Windows to connect to various servers where I run bash and screen. It seems bash works fine with ctrl-arrow keys to jump word-to-word on the command line but within…
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How can I set PuTTY's window title to the name of the loaded session?

Normally, when you load a saved session in PuTTY and connect to it, PuTTY will set the window title to the host name of the system you connected to (plus the string "PuTTY"). Now I have many different sessions that all connect to the same host, but…
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Auto-storing server host key in cache with plink

I've been trying to issue commands using plink to retrieve information from my external server. Note that these plink commands are run from a binary that expects no input from the user. Is there a flag that will allow me to override this error…
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Is there a GUI alternative to Putty SSH for transferring files?

Or any GUI SSH for Amazon ec2 Linux instance servers? I need to transfer files between two Linux virtual servers and currently I have PuTTY (which Amazon recommends). However I am new to the server/virtual world and have no experience with commands.…
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Can I use PLink and Pageant with Cygwin's ssh?

I'm now using msysgit because of the GUI tools, which use Putty's Pageant and PLink utilities, but I use Cygwin as a general SSH terminal. I had been using ssh-agent on Cygwin, but that means I have to enter my SSH key passphrases for both SSH key…
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How do I specify port number for PuTTY to use with Windows cmd?

I start most of my SSH connections with a windows command like this cmd://"C:\Program Files\PuTTY\putty.exe" -ssh root@xxx.xx.xxx.xx I assume this defaults to port 22. Now I need to connect on a different port. I tried cmd://"C:\Program…
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openssh - Adding an ssh key from putty to authorized_keys

I have been provided with an ssh key by a colleague to add to the authorized_keys file for an account on a linux server so they can access that account. The file looks something like this: ---- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ---- Comment:…
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how to tunnel Windows Remote Desktop through ssh using a linux box?

I have two physical servers in my home network, linux (192.168.8.x) and windows server 2008 (192.168.8.y). The linux server ist accessible from outside by ssh on a non-standard port (say 23008). How do I establish a permanent RDP tunnel through ssh…
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SSH Reverse Port Forwarding with PuTTy - how to specify bind address

Using Putty, I have set up a reverse proxy which allows me to connect on port 8080 of the server at server.tld to port 80 of the machine which initiated the SSH connection. The server allows me to connect on localhost:8080 and returns the result of…
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