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Re: MTPuTTY – Multi-Tabbed PuTTY

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Post by hungerstrike » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 5:23 PM UTC

sbuttgereit wrote: post #13

I use to use PuTTY and then later MOBAXterm. PuTTY was a bit too simplistic for my taste and MOBAXterm way too much bloat. These days I just SSH out of WSL using ConEmu ( https://conemu.github.io/ ) as the console. Seems to fit my overall workflow the best and gives me a mostly common experience between my Windows and Linux systems; including essentially a tabbed terminal experience. I still use plink.exe from the Pu…

One thing I love about PuTTY and WinSCP is that I can save a username and password for each system that I need to connect to.

Do you type your credentials out each time? What are your options for avoiding that?

Readers: I don't care about your personal policy. This is a feature that I want and I just want to see if you can get it outside of Windows.

Re: MTPuTTY – Multi-Tabbed PuTTY

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Post by baldfat » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 5:38 PM UTC

goda90 wrote: post #36

baldfat wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you only connect to one server yes.

Unless you connect from that server to others.

So then if you lose a connect to the first server you lost all your servers?

Re: MTPuTTY – Multi-Tabbed PuTTY

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Post by Ineentho » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 5:47 PM UTC

hungerstrike wrote: post #51

sbuttgereit wrote: post #13

I use to use PuTTY and then later MOBAXterm. PuTTY was a bit too simplistic for my taste and MOBAXterm way too much bloat. These days I just SSH out of WSL using ConEmu ( https://conemu.github.io/ ) as the console. Seems to fit my overall workflow the best and gives me a mostly common experience between my Windows and Linux systems; including essentially a tabbed terminal experience. I still use plink.exe from the Pu…

One thing I love about PuTTY and WinSCP is that I can save a username and password for each system that I need to connect to. Do you type your credentials out each time? What are your options for avoiding that? Readers: I don't care about your personal policy. This is a feature that I want and I just want to see if you can get it outside of Windows.

I think the common way is to upload your public SSH key to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and adding a host entry to ~/.SSH/config specifying the user

Re: MTPuTTY – Multi-Tabbed PuTTY

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Post by matt_wulfeck » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 6:08 PM UTC

I switched to the newest version of SSH the minute the ubuntu subsystem for windows was released. All of the normal tools and a regular shell. Perfect!

Re: MTPuTTY – Multi-Tabbed PuTTY

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Post by noisy_boy » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 6:11 PM UTC

totalizator wrote: post #41

What about sending same commands to multiple servers at once and having possibility to align tabs into layouts to see them all? Look no more. There is SuperPuTTY that I can't recommend enough https://github.com/jimradford/superputty (some years ago there was PuTTY Connection Manager (outdated now). Screenshot here: https://i.imgur.com/rknybKS.png SuperPuTTY saves me so much time and effort when managing multiple inst…

Agreed. Some of the features of SuperPuTTY that I love are 1) ability to save sessions and restore at startup 2) flexibility of changing keybindins e.g. F3 to copy current tab 3) export/import of sessions.

Re: MTPuTTY – Multi-Tabbed PuTTY

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Post by sbuttgereit » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 6:32 PM UTC

hungerstrike wrote: post #51

sbuttgereit wrote: post #13

I use to use PuTTY and then later MOBAXterm. PuTTY was a bit too simplistic for my taste and MOBAXterm way too much bloat. These days I just SSH out of WSL using ConEmu ( https://conemu.github.io/ ) as the console. Seems to fit my overall workflow the best and gives me a mostly common experience between my Windows and Linux systems; including essentially a tabbed terminal experience. I still use plink.exe from the Pu…

One thing I love about PuTTY and WinSCP is that I can save a username and password for each system that I need to connect to. Do you type your credentials out each time? What are your options for avoiding that? Readers: I don't care about your personal policy. This is a feature that I want and I just want to see if you can get it outside of Windows.

As @Ineentho mentioned in another comment, I don't use username/password for ssh. I don't allow username/password for any system which I have responsibility (not even my local VMs for consistency's sake). I use ssh certs. My certs are passphrase protected, I enter the passphrase once at the beginning of a shell session and allow ssh-agent to handle subsequent logins. If I'm on a laptop at a client site in a cube or something, sometimes I don't use ssh-agent and retype the cert passphrase each time I want to use it.

This WSL process is no different than I would do with a Linux desktop. On the windows side I do essentially the same thing except I use pageant and plink. This is only for tools which use ssh to access remote services and not for terminal access (as I mentioned I'm using WSL & SSH for that).

Does this feature exist in WSL? Not to my knowledge, but that could simply be that I haven't looked for it. I suppose if you're doing that sort of stored login credential thing, you could just write a little shell script which answered the appropriate prompts without too much trouble... I wouldn't recommend it, but you could probably get it to work.

Re: MTPuTTY – Multi-Tabbed PuTTY

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Post by baldfat » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 7:00 PM UTC

ranger207 wrote: post #44

baldfat wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When your work computer is Windows.

WSL? That's what I use.

I am ALMOST right there. I have had a few minor paper cuts.

I love that I can get Ranger working.

Re: MTPuTTY – Multi-Tabbed PuTTY

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Post by skrowl » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 7:40 PM UTC

I stopped using PuTTY (I was using the KiTTY fork) and have been exclusively using WSL(https://msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl/about) for the past 6 months. Love it so far!

My only complaint is that you have to run ssh as root to map ports < 1024 (a *nix security limitation) while in PuTTY you could just run as an average user.

Re: MTPuTTY – Multi-Tabbed PuTTY

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Post by hungerstrike » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 7:50 PM UTC

sbuttgereit wrote: post #56

hungerstrike wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One thing I love about PuTTY and WinSCP is that I can save a username and password for each system that I need to connect to. Do you type your credentials out each time? What are your options for avoiding that? Readers: I don't care about your personal policy. This is a feature that I want and I just want to see if you can get it outside of Windows.

As @Ineentho mentioned in another comment, I don't use username/password for ssh. I don't allow username/password for any system which I have responsibility (not even my local VMs for consistency's sake). I use ssh certs. My certs are passphrase protected, I enter the passphrase once at the beginning of a shell session and allow ssh-agent to handle subsequent logins. If I'm on a laptop at a client site in a cube or s…

Thanks! I only use username/password with my local mac and linux development systems. All of my cloud stuff is managed.

Re: MTPuTTY – Multi-Tabbed PuTTY

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Post by AjithAntony » Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 8:39 PM UTC

FuTTY is my favorite fork https://code.google.com/archive/p/futty/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/futty/files/ https://github.com/FireEgl/FuTTY

Major features i like:

   * adb and cygterm support
   * ctrl-scrollwheel zoom
   * clickable links (always or while holding ctrl)
   * jumplists