SSH to a remote server using PuTTY through Windows batch file?

Question

On Windows I use PuTTY to log in to a remote server via SSH. I want to use a batch script to SSH to the remote server using PuTTY. The server is running a Linux-based OS.

I used the below command to do this:

start C:\Windows\System32\putty.exe -ssh server_name -l pankmish -pw wxyz

However I got the following error:

unable to connect to remote host

If I use this command instead:

start C:\Windows\System32\putty.exe -ssh server_name -l user_name

Everything works well and I get a PuTTY window with username "user_name" in it. If I provide the correct password I am able to connect to the server. However via a batch script I am not able to provide the password when prompted.

How can I solve this?

Answer 1

I tried passing the password using command line and it worked fine for me.

start C:\Users\pankmish\Downloads\putty.exe -ssh server_name -l user -pw %1

and executed command from my windows cmd as below

test_file.bat password

Answer 2

Make sure that putty is installed and putty.exe is present in C:\Windows\System32

Open up notepad: Type in the following

start putty <username@ip/hostname> -pw <password>

Replace the above with your username, ip and password and save the file as .bat file. I think that should do it.

Answer 3

The below command is working for me as-is from inside of a bat file.

"D:\userdata\panshriv\Desktop\putty.exe" "pankaj@10.91.124.171" -pw "mypassword"

• My putty.exe is in my desktop
• My username is "pankaj"
• My password is "mypassword"

Answer 4

I use this code to input an IP address from the user. Fill in username and password with double quote "":

@echo off
set /p id="Enter IP Address: "

START "C:\Program Files\putty.exe" -ssh %id% -l username -pw "password" 

@echo

Answer 5

there are two ways to do this::

1. put your password in "" and run in command prompt as

start C:\software\putty.exe -ssh server_name -l user -pw "MyPassword$1"

OR

2. Create a file Connection123.bat with below command

start C:\software\putty.exe -ssh server_name -l user -pw %1

save the file and run the batch file as

start c:\Connection123.bat MyPassword$1

Answer 6

You may try the same trick of this answer:

@if (@CodeSection == @Batch) @then

@echo off

rem Use %SendKeys% to send keys to the keyboard buffer
set SendKeys=CScript //nologo //E:JScript "%~F0"

rem Start the putty window with the user name only
start C:\Windows\System32\putty.exe -ssh server_name -l user_name

rem Send the password to putty window
%SendKeys% "wxyz{ENTER}"

goto :EOF

@end

WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell").SendKeys(WScript.Arguments(0));

Please, post the result.