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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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"Stream" tar action from remote server through Putty?

I am accessing a shared hosting account through Putty / SSH. The account is pretty full, 300 MB below its quota. I need to make a full backup of all data present on the account. Creating a bzip2 file using tar cjf archive.tar.bz2 directory/*…
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Freebsd doesn't show command output correctly in Putty

I have just installed the latest stable version of FreeBSD to a computer and I have the following problem: If, in Putty, I issue a command like ps uxa which gives long lines of output, they get cropped. ps uxa|more doesn't help. Even if I do ps uxa…
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Putty "Server Refused our key" Google Cloud Platform compute engine instances

We have two compute engine instances(both Linux VM's) on one Project. One I had access through Putty and it was connecting fine. But the other instance I had the "Server Refused our Key" error when trying to connect through putty. In trying to fix…
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AWS Instance Password lost after Login

As the title suggested I have lost my Linux Instance password. I have already accessed it via putty and it's ppk key. But I don't remember the password of system. Is there any another way to access the system again?
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Remote port forwarding on SSH server to access internal application server

I am trying to figure out SSH port forwarding and have not found success from looking at different questions and tutorials, it seems that everything I have seen is just a little different than my situation and I can't quite figure out how to apply…
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How to SSH to a remote server using a private key on Linux?

I have been trying to connect to a remote server using my private key file from the terminal, but it doesn't seem to work. I don't understand why. Here is how I do it: $ ssh -i private.ppk oap@10.20.0.11 Enter passphrase for key 'private.ppk': Enter…
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How do I programmatically convert putty logs to human-readable, searchable files?

Background: I have a Windows 7 workstation and use PuTTY for SSH connectivity to Linux servers with session logging enabled. I previously used the Printable output option but that has the benefit of no escape characters but the drawback of making…
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Connection error in bitvise ssh client

Iam able to connect to ssh server host on openshift using putty but while using the same setting in bitvise ssh client i get the folowing error - 01:47:18.424 Connecton failed. getaddrinfo() failed. Windows error 11003: A …
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Do i have to always carry *.pem file to log in my AWS server in other computer?

I have a EC2 server (UBUNTU). I have a macbook and my ".pem" file is in my laptop computer. When i try to log in my server through putty in other computer, it require my ".pem" file. Do i have to store it in extra hard drive and carry it…
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How to get SSH PuTTY bookmarks / sessions synchronized?

As sysadmin working in IT consulting, I have a lot of SSH PuTTY (managed by SuperPutty) sessions, and also, I have 2 computers, and a few virtual machines and a Terminal Server with Putty in which I have all these sessions. Is there a way to…
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Is there any way to convert a putty "All session output" log, with control characters, to a more human readable "Printable output" log?

We had a contractor in-house to help with some configuration of a product and we're trying to look through the putty logs he set up for us, but instead of using "printable output" he used "all session output" which includes every keystroke including…
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Bash script exit on error (set -e) closes putty SSH session

I'm using set -e to force my script to exit whenever an error occurs running a command. However this has the side effect of closing my putty terminal window that I am using to connect via SSH to the host. How do I stop the terminal from closing?
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From log file into terminal in realtime

I'm on Ubuntu. Is it possible to open putty and watch as a log file updates right in terminal? Like if stdout would have been directed in terminal? For example I have one application's stdout and stderr directed into a file and want to watch how my…
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Add SSH host key to another user's PuTTY cache

I have written a PS1 script that 7-zips a file and uses PuTTY's SCP to store it at my back-up server. I have tested it and it works perfectly. Then I log into my SQL Server Agent and add an extra step to my back-up job to execute that script as soon…
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PuTTY use agent forwarding for chain of servers

I failed to configure AgentForwarding with PuTTY :( PuTTY is newest 0.61 version. I have created public/private key pair for PuTTY, converted them to openssh format, added them to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys on both host1 and host2. On both hosts in…
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