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Putty is fantastically fast on Linux! I wish there was a way to use it as an xterm replacement without having to SSH to localhost. Has anybody figured out how to do this?
It always makes me sad to see that the PuTTY download page is served over unsecure HTTP.
At least the binaries are authenticode signed now, so checking they are legit is just a right click away.
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Thankfully Chrome has fixed this issue. I just tried this and Chrome actually warns you about downloading DLLs and requires further user interaction to actually download DLL to the downloads folder: Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/MvRwZBi.png
All DLLs or just specific ones? I'd heard a while ago they were going to blacklist specific ones instead of just making it so a user has to purposely decide to download a file. I'm surprised they finally did something since we've been warning people not to use Chrome because of this issue for years.
Enumerating badness has always been a very bad idea.
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But why not just use the installer?
For a long time, there wasn't an installer for putty, so a lot of us became accustomed to just dropping the binary on our desktop or "bin" folder", but there is an installer now. Also, certain corporate environments that preclude the installer from working correctly, but won't mind you "installing" a program to your desktop/local app data.
Putty used to be the go-to tool for Windows SSH, but nowadays I'm using Bitvise SSH client. It's worth a try.
Have you ever tried XShell5? https://www.netsarang.com/products/xsh_overview.html It's free for Home/school use. I have tried all Windows SSH clients, and it is by far the best SSH client I have ever used.
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Easy to open multiple terminals from the same connection, built-in SFTP. Probably better font rendering or something.
In PuTTY you can right-click on the title bar and click "Duplicate Session" to open another connection to the same server (if that's what you mean).
Is there a reason to not call it 1.0?
I'd like the putty download to be over https and the installer to be signed. Or, at least, sha512 hashes available on the https download site. As it is, the download source for putty is one of the weakest chains in internet security!
Years ago, when I worked on Windows, putty was a great soft. Since that time I switched to MacOS/Linux with Fish shell at work and running just a simple ssh command from terminal is a bliss. I still have Windows machine at home and I am missing terminal every time I must click though to login to my remote machine. Putty is no fun anymore... User interface has not been improved for years and, sadly, it's not working f…
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For a long time, there wasn't an installer for putty, so a lot of us became accustomed to just dropping the binary on our desktop or "bin" folder", but there is an installer now. Also, certain corporate environments that preclude the installer from working correctly, but won't mind you "installing" a program to your desktop/local app data.
I find the corporate environment thing suspicious. I could imagine that if you don't have admin access, you can't install to Program Files, but couldn't you still install to your home directory, and still get those lovely start menu shortcuts?
Windows, by default requests elevated rights from the user (the UAC dialog) if you run any exe that has 'setup' or 'install' in the name, or if the manifest inside/alongside the exe defines a requirement for elevated rights.
You can spot these files as they have a little Windows 'shield' overlay on their icons (Windows overlays that itself if it detects a file needing elevated rights).
So, unless you can elevate your rights (i.e. be admin, or type in admin credentials), you can't run most installers.
However, prior to Windows 7 your personal start menu folder wasn't locked down - and as a non-admin you could easily add/remove shortcuts from it. Since Windows 7 onwards it's now protected, so you need to elevate to be able to write to it.
Windows allows you to run (by default) software from ANY folder you like, but you can only (by default, again) write to some of your user folders and the the %TEMP% location.
So downloading the PuTTY exe and running it from the downloads folder or desktop is perfectly legitimate, although not good practice.
As an aside: I'm not sure if Chrome still does it, but I recall that if you try to install it and you don't have admin rights, it just puts an icon on your desktop, and installs all the chrome files into a folder under ProgramData which resides in your user hierarchy, instead of the locked down Program Files area. Which is one way of getting around the lack of admin-rights.