PuTTY is an SSH and telnet client
PuTTY is a free and open source terminal emulator application which can act as a client for the SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw TCP computing protocols and as a serial console client.
Questions tagged [putty]
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Moving folder and subfolder to another path
I need to move my folder with many subfolders to another path.
I'm using putty and this is what I tried: MV -r fromflderpath tofolderpath
What am I doing wrong?
ram
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How do I install an SSH private key generated by PuTTYgen?
I set up my Linux server to accept connections from my home PC by adding the public key generated by PuTTYgen to the authorized_keys file.
Now I'm trying to connect to the same machine, but this time from another Ubuntu machine. I have to use the…
Assaf Lavie
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how to make putty ssh connection never to timeout when user is idle?
I have a Ubuntu 12.04 server I bought, if I connect with putty using ssh and a sudoer user putty gets disconnected by the server after some time if I am idle
How do I configure Ubuntu to keep this connection alive indefinitely?
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How do I copy text from PuTTY to another window?
I'm using PuTTY on Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) to connect to a serial port.
I need to copy text from a PuTTY window to another window (for example, gedit).
UPDATE
I can copy by selecting text with the mouse and paste it by mouse middle click. But it…
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Copy paste not working on ubuntu putty
I have been using putty to connect to one of my client server,here the problem is that copy and paste doesn't work. When I was on windows it used to work and now I want the same thing on ubuntu 13.10.
Sachin Prasad
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How can I find out if someone logged onto my computer through putty?
I am suspecting that a Windows user logged onto my computer with my password. So, is it possible that I can see a trace of logging in on my computer?
J.Doe
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Putty-like copy/paste
For ages I've been using Putty when working with *nix servers, and I really got used to it's copy&paste method: select, left-click - for copy, just right-click - for paste.
How can I set Ubuntu terminal the same way? I see there is a shortcuts…
BarsMonster
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Dissable putty tabcompletion sound
When I connect to a Windows computer with ssh to ubuntu server.
And I use tabcompletion and there are multiple option I hear a geluiid this is sometimes very annoying. Is there a way that I can turn off that sound
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Increase font size of putty
I am using putty for remote login in Linux in Ubuntu. The font size of terminal is very small. How can I increase it's font size.
Puneet Dixit
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No terminal colors in Ubuntu Server 12.04
I've tried everything from this duplicate question but I still can't get it to work. The only difference from that question is that when I run env | grep TERM I get TERM=xterm instead of TERM=xterm-color. I dont think it matters though, they seem to…
pzkpfw
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Ncurses prompts look broken in PuTTY from Windows
Byobu looks very broken in PuTTY. I've already fixed the key mapping issue, but this issue isn't specified in the man page or even Google:
Notice the misplaced position of the list of windows, the broken selector position, the duplication of the…
TheLQ
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Ubuntu putty and serial port
Need putty to work on /dev/ttyUSB0
I know for a fact that the port (console on a switch) is 9600 8/n/1, so it should be simple.
ttyUSB0 shows up in dmesg.
So shouldn't I be able to select /dev/ttyUSB0 in putty's serial configuration and it should…
Scott
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Putty, Byobu, Tmux and function keys
I'm currently trying to use byobu from PuTTY via ssh. I have currently putty-256color as Terminal-type string because otherwise not even Byobu bindings worked and I couldn't create new windows or move between them. I have Tmux backend and…
devster
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How can I change the default Unity keyboard shortcut?
I installed Ubuntu 11.04 and it works fine.
But I have a little problem. I need to use Putty and it uses F10 as a shortcut to a function, but Unity intercepts it as a shrtcut, so I cannot access this function.
How I can change this shortcut in…
Marcelo Nunes
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When using `byobu` in a PuTTY session cannot create new windows
I have an Ubuntu 10.04.4 web server, and I have set it to run byobu on session startup.
To start with it all seems to work fine, for example F9 brings up the menu and F7 starts the copy/paste process.
When I connect to the server using PuTTY from my…
Cylindric
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