We need him to SSH (& SFTP) to our Linux server & we only allow acc. You're going to need to store the keys somewhere. When asked where you want to save the file, navigate to the SSH Keys. Log in with PuTTY. In the PuTTY session, go to Connection=SSH=Auth and click browse and select where you stored your private key 'It's a.ppk' file. Then save this session (I'm assuming you also set up the account, IP address, etc.). Once this is done, you just have to select the session, and you are logged in.
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To set permanent PuTTY session parameters do:.Create sessions in PuTTY. Name it as ' MyskinPROD'.Configure the path for this session to point to ' C:dir&Y&M&D&T&Hputty.log'.Create a Windows ' Shortcut' to C.Putty.exe.Open 'Shortcut' Properties and append ' Target' line with parameters as shown below: 'C:Program Files (x86)UTLputty.exe' -ssh -load MyskinPROD user@ServerIP -pw passwordNow, your PuTTY shortcut will bring in the ' MyskinPROD' configuration every time you open the shortcut.Check the screenshots and details on how I did it in my environment.
.Chapter 3: Using PuTTYThis chapter provides a general introduction to some more advanced features of PuTTY. For extreme detail and reference purposes, is likely to contain more information. 3.1 During your sessionA lot of PuTTY's complexity and features are in the configuration panel. Once you have worked your way through that and started a session, things should be reasonably simple after that.
Nevertheless, there are a few more useful features available. 3.1.1 Copying and pasting textOften in a PuTTY session you will find text on your terminal screen which you want to type in again. Like most other terminal emulators, PuTTY allows you to copy and paste the text rather than having to type it again. Also, copy and paste uses the Windows clipboard, so that you can paste (for example) URLs into a web browser, or paste from a word processor or spreadsheet into your terminal session.PuTTY's copy and paste works entirely with the mouse.
In order to copy text to the clipboard, you just click the left mouse button in the terminal window, and drag to select text. When you let go of the button, the text is automatically copied to the clipboard. You do not need to press Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Ins; in fact, if you do press Ctrl-C, PuTTY will send a Ctrl-C character down your session to the server where it will probably cause a process to be interrupted.Pasting is done using the right button (or the middle mouse button, if you have a three-button mouse and have set it up; see ). (Pressing Shift-Ins, or selecting ‘Paste’ from the Ctrl+right-click context menu, have the same effect.) When you click the right mouse button, PuTTY will read whatever is in the Windows clipboard and paste it into your session, exactly as if it had been typed at the keyboard. (Therefore, be careful of pasting formatted text into an editor that does automatic indenting; you may find that the spaces pasted from the clipboard plus the spaces added by the editor add up to too many spaces and ruin the formatting. There is nothing PuTTY can do about this.)If you double-click the left mouse button, PuTTY will select a whole word. If you double-click, hold down the second click, and drag the mouse, PuTTY will select a sequence of whole words.
(You can adjust precisely what PuTTY considers to be part of a word; see.) If you triple-click, or triple-click and drag, then PuTTY will select a whole line or sequence of lines.If you want to select a rectangular region instead of selecting to the end of each line, you can do this by holding down Alt when you make your selection. You can also configure rectangular selection to be the default, and then holding down Alt gives the normal behaviour instead: see for details.(In some Unix environments, Alt+drag is intercepted by the window manager. Shift+Alt+drag should work for rectangular selection as well, so you could try that instead.)If you have a middle mouse button, then you can use it to adjust an existing selection if you selected something slightly wrong. (If you have configured the middle mouse button to paste, then the right mouse button does this instead.) Click the button on the screen, and you can pick up the nearest end of the selection and drag it to somewhere else.It's possible for the server to ask to handle mouse clicks in the PuTTY window itself. If this happens, the mouse pointer will turn into an arrow, and using the mouse to copy and paste will only work if you hold down Shift. See and for details of this feature and how to configure it. 3.1.2 Scrolling the screen backPuTTY keeps track of text that has scrolled up off the top of the terminal.
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So if something appears on the screen that you want to read, but it scrolls too fast and it's gone by the time you try to look for it, you can use the scrollbar on the right side of the window to look back up the session history and find it again.As well as using the scrollbar, you can also page the scrollback up and down by pressing Shift-PgUp and Shift-PgDn. You can scroll a line at a time using Ctrl-PgUp and Ctrl-PgDn. These are still available if you configure the scrollbar to be invisible.By default the last 2000 lines scrolled off the top are preserved for you to look at. You can increase (or decrease) this value using the configuration box; see. 3.1.3 The System menuIf you click the left mouse button on the icon in the top left corner of PuTTY's terminal window, or click the right mouse button on the title bar, you will see the standard Windows system menu containing items like Minimise, Move, Size and Close.PuTTY's system menu contains extra program features in addition to the Windows standard options.
These extra menu commands are described below.(These options are also available in a context menu brought up by holding Ctrl and clicking with the right mouse button anywhere in the PuTTY window.) 3.1.3.1 The PuTTY Event LogIf you choose ‘Event Log’ from the system menu, a small window will pop up in which PuTTY logs significant events during the connection. Most of the events in the log will probably take place during session startup, but a few can occur at any point in the session, and one or two occur right at the end.You can use the mouse to select one or more lines of the Event Log, and hit the Copy button to copy them to the clipboard.
If you are reporting a bug, it's often useful to paste the contents of the Event Log into your bug report.(The Event Log is not the same as the facility to create a log file of your session; that's described in.) 3.1.3.2 Special commandsDepending on the protocol used for the current session, there may be a submenu of ‘special commands’. These are protocol-specific tokens, such as a ‘break’ signal, that can be sent down a connection in addition to normal data.
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