Questions tagged [putty]

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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login with rsa to my vps

I successfully added a rsa key my root account. since I don't want everything in my root acc, I created a new user. but for some how, I keep getting "server refuses our keys" message :S I did following command with my root acc: adduser…
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SSH Public Key Authentication not working with PuTTY

I have created a virtual machine and installed Redhat 6. I am having issues connecting using public key authentication. I can use PuTTY on my Windows host to connect to the redhat guest, where I am prompted for a password. I am trying to setup…
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ssh/putty binds to wrong networkcard

I'm using FreeSSH on my server and Putty on my client. I'm trying to make a port (3333) on my server connect to my local PC. This way my PC port is visible to the outside. However, when I look with netstat -an on the server, I see that there is a…
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Remote access to Centos server not working

we have a Centos server and currently SSH access to it isn't working. It used to work until some 5 days ago. Now, the only way to log into the machine is to do it locally. We have tried SSH both using Putty and FileZilla with no success. The machine…
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Cant Login using SSH or Filezilla FTP

I had been using linode successfully for the last 3 months. The server OS is a Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. From a few hours, I am not able to login through SSH via putty. After I enter the username and password, putty throws a pop up error: Server connection…
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'POSSIBLE BREAK IN ATTEMPT' in /var/log/auth.log when you use private key in putty?

When when I ssh into my server from windows using putty without using public key authentication I get no indication of a "BREAK IN ATTEMPT" in /var/log/auth.log However when I use DSA keys and set the appropriate path for the private key in…
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How to get screen command to indicate what screen you're looking at for ubuntu servers?

When I use the screen command in red hat it lists what screen I'm looking at in putty However when I use the screen command in ubuntu 10.04 it doesn't list what screen I'm looking at in putty. Is there any way I can configure ubuntu 10.04 or putty…
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TortoiseSVN Function as a remote viewer of Linux-based Repository

I'm currently trying to run TortoiseSVN as a "remote viewer" of an existing repository on a Linux RHEL server (running svnserver). This should in theory be possible, if the 'shell' interface works as described. Ideally I'd like to be able to run…
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Elevate PSFTP "put" command as root

Attempting to use PSFTP to "put" a file from my local Windows 7 machine up to a directory on a remote Ubuntu server with only root access permitted. How do I sudo elevate my PSFTP session to execute the put as root? The following for i.e. is not…
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Error on trying to ssh to a prgmr box when using PuTTY like utility KiTTY

I recently got a box on prgmr. Excited, I tried to login using my username password in KiTTY (which is basically an improved PuTTY) and got the following error, shown in the screenshot. Now, I can connect fine when using a Linux terminal. The…
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Switch Between Users

I build my webapp on a local machine, but from time to time I can go to a public Linux server on which I have two accounts using a ssh connection (with putty). My accounts are two Linux users, access to my public webapp is at the address:…
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SSH key setup for Joyent Node SmartMachine and Windows?

I just got a Joyent Node SmartMachine. I'm using Windows. My goal is to SSH in to the SmartMachine and add/install things from GitHub. The issue I'm having is that I'm unable to connect to my SmartMachine via SSH using Putty. In Putty, after I enter…
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Debian servers do not appear in PuTTY title bar

I use a specific server for connecting to all servers via SSH. When I connect to the SSH gateway server it perfectly says chronoz@sshgw in the PuTTY title bar and when I connect to a CentOS server this server appears as root@server01. It is very…
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SSH / SCP connections to Ubuntu server blocked from one remote host but not others

I have a server running Ubuntu SE 10.10. Two Windows 7 machines are attempting to WinSCP / Putty into it using the same credentials. Both are definitely connecting to the correct host, but one gets an Access Denied error. IPs of the two windows…
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How do I create a guest ftp user and give access to specific sub-folder with SSH?

I just got a virtual dedicated server at GoDaddy. I got the Simple Control Panel. There doesn't seem to be a way to create a guest ftp user through this control panel and I was told it must be created through SSH. I have a program called Putty which…
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