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PuTTY is a free open source SSH/Telnet terminal emulation program for Windows and Unix like operating systems.

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Run remote command with putty

When I do putty -ssh user@host -pw password echo "hi" I get a network error But if I do putty -ssh user@host -pw password An SSH session is successfully opened in a putty terminal. However, ...
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SSH locale wrong

I have a debian server with locales set to hu_HU.UTF-8, and if i log in trough console it works perfectly in hungarian. It also worked with ssh logins until i disabled PAM in the sshd config. Since ...
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Tunnel SSH from A->B->C [closed]

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, ...
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Why does my SSH passphrase work with `plink` and not `ssh`?

I've configured my router to accept a public key SSH session with a passphrase. They key pair was generated using the PuTTY tools on windows. I can open the session from both Windows and Linux ...
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How to recover from "Too many Authentication Failures for user root"

I've done several attempts to establish SSH-connecton for user root@host using putty terminal. While doing so I specified wrong credentials several times and after that I've specified them correctly, ...
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How to make PuTTY settings persistent? [closed]

Some PuTTY settings are valid only for the current session, and when I start it again, they are at the default value again. How can I change the default values?
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How to fix PuTTY showing garbled characters? [closed]

Connecting from a Windows 7 PC via SSH to an Ubuntu server using PuTTY, I get some screen errors: I.e. it: "Double-draws" the selection inside Midnight Commander (MC). Other characters like line ...
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Is there a way to permanently set the font and window size in PuTTY?

When I log in with PuTTY, I always have to: change settings appearance font change 8 resize window so that I can see enough text to work with the log files. I don't see where I can save these ...
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putty and screen and scroll-back buffer [closed]

When I use screen inside a putty session, I can't seem to use the scrollback buffer of putty to look at whatever just scrolled off the screen. Instead, I just see what was happening in the putty ...
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How can I set PuTTY's window title to the name of the loaded session?

Normally, when you load a saved session in PuTTY and connect to it, PuTTY will set the window title to the host name of the system you connected to (plus the string "PuTTY"). Now I have many ...
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openssh - Adding an ssh key from putty to authorized_keys

I have been provided with an ssh key by a colleague to add to the authorized_keys file for an account on a linux server so they can access that account. The file looks something like this: ---- ...
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Can I use PLink and Pageant with Cygwin's ssh?

I'm now using msysgit because of the GUI tools, which use Putty's Pageant and PLink utilities, but I use Cygwin as a general SSH terminal. I had been using ssh-agent on Cygwin, but that means I have ...
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How to enable KeepAlive in putty command line

currently i am using putty like this from the command line: putty.exe -ssh [email protected] -pw mypassword how do i enable KeepAlive so that the connection doesnt die if i leave the terminal window ...
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Set xterm (PuTTY) window title when using screen?

I am trying to get screen to set my xterm title. I have this working outside of screen, but screen keeps whatever title was in place when I started it. Here is my .bashrc: function ...
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Can't get detached screen to resume

I use putty and have an unreliable wireless connection, so I use screen to keep my work going. Often I'll get disconnected, and then I can't reattach my screen. I'll run screen -D -RR and it will just ...
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Strange Problem: Connection Reset By Peer

I am having some trouble with SSH on my linux server running CentOS. I can connect to my server fine using PuTTY or ssh from windows cmd. The same goes for using secure FTP. I can connect to the ...
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best ssh program for Windows?

I know of Putty. I currently use rxvt (via Cygwin). Is there a more "integrated" terminal program for Windows out there? e.g. something closer to KDE's kconsole -- where I can have multiple shells ...
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Remote Desktop over SSH to Windows 7 box

I have been using remote desktop to access a Windows 7 PC, tunneled over an SSH connection, successfully for a while now, until it suddenly stopped working. The client is also Windows 7, and I ...
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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() ...
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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 - ...
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SSH - sent password / access granted very slow

I wrote a question the other day regarding slow authentication. disabling GSSAPIauth did the trick. However, I am now faced with another issue. When reviewing the PuTTY event logs, i now have ~20 ...
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PuTTY Session Closed on Expired Password Over SSH Connection

I have a Ubuntu 8.10 build with OpenSSH version 5.1p1 running. I create a new user account, set the password, then expire it using the following command: chage -d 0 username I want to force the user ...
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Server refused our key (AWS) - Putty

I've just signed up to AWS and launched EC2, downloaded key (.pem) file then generated ppk file using puttykeygen. Using this ppk file I've tried to log in to the server via SSH using Putty but it's ...
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delete key prints "~" in putty

i am SSHing to a RHEL-3 box using Putty. Backspace works correctly, but when I press the "Delete" key the deletion does not happen. Instead, it prints "~" on the screen. Thanks in advance, Ajay
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Cannot SSH tunnel with PuTTY (Windows Vista) to connect to MySQL on a Linux box

Goal: I am trying to copy a database onto my local box running Windows Vista. Setup: Using MySQL 5.1 (mysql-essential-5.1win32) on Windows Vista On Linux box: MySQL Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0....
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How do I use putty (and/or plink) command line to forward through 2 intermediate hosts to a database?

I need to write a script for some co-workers to connect over the following topology, using a private key for authentication (the same key for each person works on both bastion and db access): ┌──────...
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How to fix the security group attached to the EC2 instance

I can connect to AWS EC2 Instance using PuTTY at my home by laptop. But when I bring the laptop to some cafe that provides free Wifi, it ends up with timeout error. In order to solve this problem, I ...
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Slow SSH connection establishment with PuTTY but not with OpenSSH

I'm having an a slow connection establishement issue with PuTTY : > time.exe plink.exe -no-antispoof [email protected] exit ...
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Can't ssh after configuring sshd_config

I have configured my sshd configuration files to listen to ipv6 addresses, but forgot to uncomment ipv4 local addresses. Here is a snippet from my configuration file: AddressFamily any ListenAddress ...
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