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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 type/send hex on a PuTTY session

I'm using PuTTY to make a serial connection to a device. I need to send a hexadecimal string on this session. How do I do this? The hexadecimal string is FF7E414244. This is required to break the serial device into command interface mode... From an…
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Can I rsync from Putty on windows to my Cent OS server?

I'm a bit new to the command line and UNIX but am finding it hugely useful. Is it possible for me to rsync from putty on my windows 7 machine to my virtual server? If not what are my other command line options? I just want to update my cms scripts…
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What is supposed to be entered after "login as" in PuTTy for SSH?

When I open up PuTTy, it says "login as". What is supposed to be entered? Thanks in advance, John
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Pressing backspace with root gives weired character in putty

I am using putty to make ssh connection with my server. I use up and down arrow button to go through history commands. but now when i press backspace instead of deleting the character , some weired chacater appear like service mysql stop service…
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What's the best way in Windows to manage multiple ssh sessions (via putty?) to look at clustered servers?

There's a tool called cssh for linux that has simular use to what I'd like to have on Windows. Basically I'm logging into servers that are identical to each other and I'd like to be able to type the same thing in both windows at the same time to…
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Setting up Git over SSH on Windows using a non-standard port

I had to switch from Ubuntu so that I could use Adobe Suite at full speed and now I'm finding that SSH on windows is not as unified as on linux. So I installed msysgit and putty but I'm finding that git is having trouble using putty for SSH. (I did…
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Upload a file using scp only if the file was updated/modified?

pscp is a very handful tool if you want to upload files to another server using SSH. The only problem is that it is not able to detect if the destination file is already updated (based on datetime). I don't want to upload the file again if the file…
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PuTTY not showing some UTF-8 characters

So many questions and answers about PuTTY and UTF-8 encoding... Let me summarize: I'm using a patched Nerd Font (https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts). It displays fine for most special characters, but some just don't display correctly in PuTTY.…
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Plink/Putty fail on return

Any one have any idea why a remote command to a NetApp filer would fail when using Plink/Putty (to execute a command) across 2 networks? Everything is open both ways (multiple firewalls), but the filer seems to be responding from port 22 to some…
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I cannot SSH or Telnet to Windows Server 2012 on VPS

I just bought a Windows Server 2012 on VPS.I can connect it using remote desktop and setup mongodb and access it.But i cannot seem to telnet or ssh to it using Putty. Both ports are open and listening.Putty gives me 'Connection timeout error'. …
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Changing comment in Putty .ppk file stop it accepting password

I wanted my putty key to have a more descriptive comment rather than just the date so I opened it up in text editor and changed it. After I did pageant wouldn't accept the password anymore. Luckily I had it backed up. How do I change the comment…
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SSH `-b` option in PuTTY/KiTTY

The openSSH SSH client has the -b option to bind to a specific address: -b bind_address Use bind_address on the local machine as the source address of the connection. Only useful on systems with more than one address. The primary network I'm using…
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PuTTY automatically supply password

I have a situation where I need to have PuTTY (or another SSH client for Windows) automatically log into another machine via SSH. I realize that this isn't a good idea security-wise, but unfortunately I'm constrained by the limitations both on the…
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Using SSH Keys with Kerberos

So there's an issue that we've been having at our company causing me to pull my hair out for the past week: We have hundreds of server boxes (a mix of CentOS6/7, if it matters) that need to quickly be SSHed into on a daily basis between a team.…
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How can I connect to multiple servers efficiently with ssh using Linux

We run a VSphere at the office, meaning I am using a lot of different ssh connections to systems. I really like Mputty and MobaXterm on Windows, because they save and remember how I connected to my servers. So connection is always a double click…
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