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 PuTTY - a Telnet and SSH Client (free) - try :-
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Some burbling, scraped from a recent BBS, on PuTTY ...

Post 1.

This is a great set of tools.

PuTTY.exe opens with a signon, and configuration dialog. On connection, it open a nice TTY window ... It has session logging, but is weak on copy and paste ...

Good solid shell login tool, using Secure Socket Layer (SSL).

Are there any others like it?

Post 2 - Paste is done via -

select any text on the screen

put your cursor, where you want to paste

click your right mouse button.

also will also paste whatever you have in your windows clipboard.

Post 3

putty supports command line operation (which took me a long time to figure out)

what i have not figured out is how to use the command line to both call a saved settings session and login automatically.

Any ideas what the correct command line should be?

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too late!

here it is:

> putty -load session1 user@host

you have to save a session in the gui first...

Do you know any other cool putyy tricks?

Post 4

PS: PuTTY.exe - you could try PUTTY.HLP if you want to know more about this little TTY tool ... Section 3.7.1 shows commands ...
it does not appear to allow the password to be automated, but that
seems ok for a SSL connection ...

Your final command seemed redundant ... If you use -load session.name, then you should not need to add the user@host to the command line ... that should be part of the 'saved' session ...
or you put/save your main user@host into the 'Default Setting' ...

Yes, copy/paste works, but it 'feels' sticky, and I had some difficulty when I was in the pico editor ... but, as stated, a
great TTY tool ... works flawlessly for me ;-))

Each of the other putty tools do allow batch file, thus automated, processing ... sent you a psftp.exe get-a-file batch, and a copy batch ... to move files to/from server to local hdd ... if that
is what you want to do ... still have not got ansi.sys running so
plink.exe will work, and look fine ...

I like code editors that at least colour the code, so writing
the actual file locally, is often a good option. It depends on
the case, and the complexity ... That is why I use my 'copy'
batch file. This quickly and easily moves the file to the server. Of
course, this sometimes means you have to unix-ise the file line
endings first ... all part of coding ;-))

Post 5

Oop, should look, then post ... not vica versa ;-))

See command -
Section 3.7.3.8: -pw: specify a password

Post 6

thanks - i had only tried putting the user name in Rlogin - just tried putting it in Connection. Putty uses this one to start the session, I now see

Post 7 - Re copy/paste ... sticky

did you get the drift of the linux right-click to paste procedure?

Post 8 - command -pw password

cool!!

Post 9 - on a putty connection

We are you talking about 'users' on a linux box, which has nothing to do with the web or http, except we use an ethernet 'connection' mechanism, and sockets to ftp, telnet, rlogin, SSH, to get to a linux shell, an OS ... just a big PC ...

The tools that offer this connection use the name@domain only to get the IP address, from DNS, then opens a socket using that host IP address.

The users name and password are checked, and if all ok, a linux shell is started on the 'users' behalf, and you are on. What you type, click, or do, is passed to the shell, or what ever you cause the shell to load, like pico (editor), or mc (File Manager). The protocol is raw TCP/IP through an open socket handle ...

This is nothing to do with how a URL is handled in IE. There is no 'socket' connection opened, and the protocol used a HTTP. It is HTTP over ethernet, which is also TCP/IP. This HTTP GET requested is handled by Apache, httpd. Instead of a shell being run, httpd is started to resolve the GET ...

It is given, in your case, most of the 'users' you have created also want site (www) access so that is the norm in your linux server ...

When I login through PuTTY, or any TTY tool for that matter, I land in my 'home' directory. What I can 'see', or 'do', will depend on what/which 'group' I am a member of ... my 'permissions' ...

Post 10

I do not understand what the message starting with "We are you talking about 'users' on a linux box" refers to.

It doesn't appear to have anything significantly relating to Putty and its usage.

This type of message is often called an "off-topic" message. Just so we get our nomenclature straight.

May I suggest you start a new topic.

BTW, I think I have turned on forcing users to log-in before posting - but please do check to see if your messages are coming in as geoff rather than guest.

Now I'm being off-topic...

As at 10/10/2004 - hope the information helps ...

Can not help saying, keep puttying on ;-))

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