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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: 3, Informative) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday February 22 2017, @08:16PM
I have used PuTTY in the past and still do for a serial console. It's a great utility if all you need is an SSH terminal emulator with port forwarding. But what if you want a near full unix setup that runs natively under Windows? Use Cygwin.
If you work with a lot of Unix stuff and desire that same functionality on Windows, Cygwin is what you want. I can't say enough good things about it. You can do almost anything unixy under cygwin including all common unix utils like sed/awk/grep, ssh, rsync, shell scripting (sh/bash/perl/etc), vi/vim/emacs, gcc/mingw/clang, and an X server along with many common GUI programs and a whole lot more. You can even call bash scripts from bat/cmd files and vice versa as well as run windows commands from within cygwin and pipe output to other utilities. Bonus is that it still runs on XP, Vista and 7/8 if you don't want/need that Linux system for Windows 10 (yuk). Comes in 32 and 64 bit flavors and both can be installed if desired. Once you start using it, you won't know how you got along without it.
SSH works just like it does on a standard Unix-like OS including keys, port forwarding, utilities, and syntax.
In the distant past, Cygwin was quirky and in some ways broken and it got a bad rap. But today it is very complete and I haven't had any major issues with it. People dislike the installer (which is also how you update) but I don't mind it at all. However, The newer version of the installer they released this year is a little more confusing if you didn't know how it worked previously. And installing Cygwin is like installing Linux from the net, you want a fat pipe or a lot of patience as it is installing a complete OS from the net. My install is 4GB.