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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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Why are quotes and other non-alphanumeric characters not being rendered correctly when I ssh?

The following is a line from the the mysql man page when accessed from my computer running ubuntu with the gnome gui "Command-Line Options that Affect Option-File Handling". This line gets rendered as this: âCommand-Line Options that Affect…
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Putty IP address of client - passing to terminal?

Please can anyone help - when launching Putty from a desktop machine is it possible to pass the value of the IP address of the Windows machine to the server session?
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Tunnel SSH from A->B->C

I'm looking to setup a tunnel using PuTTY on Windows. Ideally I'd SSH directly from A->C, however, I can't from the network I'm on. I can, however connected from A->B->C. C is running a vncserver, which I'd like to connect to from A. How can I…
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Putty access denied

I'm trying to connect SSH using Putty to my server but somehow I cannot connect and it comes with Access Denied error when I type in my username. Is there something I need to do to fix this issue?
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SSH Tunnel slow

I just moved halfway across the globe and am having a strange connection issue. I have a 4 Mbps dsl connection, can successfully ssh into my server, and setup a tunnel. I use PuTTY (on my desktop - PC) and Terminal (on my mac). The speed from my…
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Authenticate to git server via PuTTy

Hey, I'm connecting to a remote server via PuTTy. On this server, I also work on some code, which I would like to push to a git repository, which needs ssh-rsa authentication. So when pushing git push origin master the server asks for a password.…
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PuTTY SSH Connection to a Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop, Pressing Enter (either) in a Man page sends 'ESCOM' instead of CR/LF

I'm trying to perform a search in a manpage, which requires the Enter key to achieve. However pressing it displays the word ESCOM instead of the desired function. The Enter key works as it should in other areas such as the command line, or…
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plink without any parameters says "unable to open connection"

In Windows 2003 when i run plink without arguments, it says "unable to open connection: host does not exist" (And of course when it is run with arguments) What can be the cause? I am becoming crazy
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Can Pageant be used by Windows services?

Is it possible to configure Pageant (SSH key management) so that its keys are usable by a Windows service with the "Log On As" user of "Local System"? If not, is there any other tool that can do this? EDIT: I've tried setting Pageant up as a…
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Basic proxy with OpenSSH, Cygwin, Putty

I know this is probably a common question, but after looking around for a few hours (on this site and others), I can't find a solution. I'm trying to set up a simple proxy. I already have a server running Windows Server 2008. I've installed Cygwin…
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SSH local to SSH remote server through Windows RDP jump point

Is possible make tunnel for linux (ssh) through windows (rdp) to linux (ssh)? Just make ssh tunnel on windows. Is possible with putty for example? Problem is that now I must go from local linux to windows jump point with RDP, and then from this…
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How to run more than one puttycm application process on the same Windows box?

I have tried running puttycm on 2 separate Windows RDP sessions on the same Windows server and it wouldn't allow me to run more than one. I don't understand why I am not able to do that.
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Set Putty Window Title Dynamically to Hostname

Is any way to dynamically change the window title within Putty when jumping between devices? The majority of my work is on Cisco/Juniper devices and in order to reach these devices, I use a Linux jump box. I effectively end up with a dozen open…
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Where are PuTTY host names stored

On a server we have a script running some PuTTY PSCP: pscp -v -sftp target-host:/some-path/* some-local-path target-host is neither an IP nor and hostname like some.server.com but a single word, like an alias. I've looked into the Windows hosts…
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PuTTY configuration with plink for keyboard-interactive authentication

Please see EDIT #2 for latest findings I've looked at other similar questions but, unfortunately, none of them seemed to help. This one is the closest and my symptoms are similar. Here's the issue: I am trying to setup the equivalent of ProxyJump…
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