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PuTTY is a free implementation of SSH and Telnet for Windows and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. A new release of Putty was recently announced — it can be downloaded from the PuTTY latest release page.
From the changelog page:
These features are new in 0.68 (released 2017-02-21):
- Security fix: an integer overflow bug in the agent forwarding code. See vuln-agent-fwd-overflow.
- Security fix: the Windows PuTTY binaries should no longer be vulnerable to hijacking by specially named DLLs in the same directory (on versions of Windows where they previously were). See vuln-indirect-dll-hijack.
- Windows PuTTY no longer sets a restrictive process ACL by default, because this turned out to inconvenience too many legitimate applications such as NVDA and TortoiseGit. You can still manually request a restricted ACL using the command-line option -restrict-acl.
- The Windows PuTTY tools now come in a 64-bit version.
- The Windows PuTTY tools now have Windows's ASLR and DEP security features turned on.
- Support for elliptic-curve cryptography (the NIST curves and 25519), for host keys, user authentication keys, and key exchange.
- Support for importing and exporting OpenSSH's new private key format.
- Host key preference policy change: PuTTY prefers host key formats for which it already knows the key.
- Run-time option (from the system menu / Ctrl-right-click menu) to retrieve other host keys from the same server (which cross-certifies them using the session key established using an already-known key) and add them to the known host-keys database.
- The Unix GUI PuTTY tools can now be built against GTK 3.
- There is now a Unix version of Pageant.
When I first started on as staff on SoylentNews, I was running Windows XP and discovered I needed a secure client to gain terminal access to our SoylentNews servers. One of the sysops here suggested PuTTY and guided me in its installation and setup. The UI for this program is, to be kind, different from any other program I have used, yet it seems to be self-consistent in its idiosyncrasies.
Since then, I've moved on to running Windows 7 Pro x64 and have carried over my Putty install. I'll likely install the upgrade in a few days (letting others catch any as-yet unfound bugs) but I am curious what else is out there.
What programs do my fellow Soylentils use for secure terminal access to remote servers from Windows?
[Ed Note - Link from 0.68 fixed. Thanks wonkey_monkey. - Fnord666
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22 2017, @06:43PM
There's your problem. Don't run Windows and you will have zero need for Putty.
Everything that Putty provides is already a basic built in feature of a Unix OS.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday February 22 2017, @07:51PM
That's it! Learn to use the ssh and telnet commands. (and there once was even this thing called rs232) I find this a much simpler solution than running PuTTY.
Run ssh or telnet commands on Linux.
Where Linux is running in a web browser with PC emulator written in JavaScript [bellard.org].
The browser is IE 6.
That IE 6 is running on Wine.
Wine is running on Windows Subsystem for Linux.
WSL is running on Windows 10.
Windows 10 is running in VirtualBox.
VirtualBox is running on Linux.
Problem solved.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22 2017, @07:51PM
Thats nice. How does that relate to the release of a widely used *windows* tool?
(Score: 2) by bart9h on Wednesday February 22 2017, @08:40PM
Some months ago I started working on a place that only have Windows.
Heck, it's a bit uncomfortable for someone used to a good operation system.
I installed VMWare, put Devuan on it, and I use putty.exe to open a shell there, so I can run my favorite IDE: the unix shell (screen, vim, git, ag, etc.)
Cygwin is just too slow. Running Vim on Windows works, but the rest of the tools are either not available (screen), are too cumbersome to install (ag), or are too slow (git).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 23 2017, @05:25AM
Screen isnt available on cygwin? wrong. and if cygwin is slow for you, maybe you need a modern machine to run windows on.
(Score: 2) by linuxrocks123 on Wednesday February 22 2017, @10:18PM
I was about to say "not true", but then checked just to make sure. As it turns out, the standard sftp client can resume partial transfers if you pass the "-a" flag. Wow, that's something I wish I'd learned earlier. Is that a new feature? I have to think I checked the man pages before downloading PuTTY for Linux a few years ago in utter frustration.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 23 2017, @04:38AM
I generally just use rsync for file transfers instead of dealing with scp/sftp's weird command line options. Has the bonus of acting exactly the same for local and remote transfers.