The ultimate Putty guide: Using Putty for SSH

Name: The ultimate Putty guide: Using Putty for SSH
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Master Putty settings for SSH: Learn advanced putty settings and save profiles for quick access to your Linux servers

Created byArun Kumar

Last updated 12/2017

English

What you'll learn

Download and Install putty on windows machine
Create and edit profiles in putty
Launch Linux GUI interface using Xming with Putty
Log your putty session into text files for future reference
Change putty terminal font size, color and disable bell sound
Putty best practices in real time - Author advise

Course content

6 sections • 28 lectures • 54m total length

Before you start0:18
How to download putty1:22
Search for PuTTY on Google, access the official download page, and choose the correct 32-bit or 64-bit binary for your Windows system to install PuTTY for SSH.
How to Install putty1:10
Download and run Putty by double-clicking the small executable; no installer needed, launch from desktop or taskbar for quick SSH sessions.
How to Start putty3:08
Start putty, install and launch the software, save connection profiles, and connect to a server using its IP address and port, typically port 22; learn about hostnames and DNS names.

Starting multiple sessions in putty2:13
Learn how to start and manage multiple PuTTY sessions for ssh connections, including opening new sessions, duplicating sessions to the same server, and launching additional connections to different IP addresses.
Login to putty ssh terminal1:40
Log in to a server using the root user, enter the password, verify the connected host with the hostname command, and handle login banners or warnings.
Log out from putty ssh terminal1:00
Learn to log out from the PuTTY SSH terminal by typing exit or closing the window, and end sessions safely when switching users.

Create your first profile in putty2:28
Create a PuTTY profile to save session details, including IP and port, enabling quick connections by double-clicking the profile or loading it for login.
Create multiple server profiles in putty1:39
Create and save multiple server profiles in putty to auto-fill usernames and log in via ssh using saved IP addresses and ports.
Create multiple user profiles in putty1:32
Learn how to create and save multiple PuTTY profiles to connect to the same server using different authentication options, including automatic login for an Oracle user and root login.
How to edit a profile0:54
Learn how to edit a Linux profile: load the profile, rename it, save to clone prior settings under a new name, and delete unwanted profiles from the list.

Download and install Xming software4:13
Download and install the Xming X server, start it to provide a graphical display, and prepare putty to connect via ssh with an X11 windowing setup.
Putty X11 forward setting2:35
Learn to use PuTTY for SSH by loading a session, enabling X11 forwarding, saving changes, and running Linux GUI apps like Firefox on Windows via Xming.
Create default GUI profile in putty2:52

How to log your putty session into text files7:03
Enable PuTTY session logging by configuring a default profile, selecting a log folder, and using timestamped host-name-date-time filenames to capture every command and output in text files for auditing.
How to disable Linux bell sound2:09
Learn to disable the PuTTY bell sound to prevent annoying alerts when you press backspace or escape. Adjust default and saved session settings, and save changes.
How to keep all scroll lines in putty3:51
Change the font of putty terminal2:31
Discover how to increase the Putty terminal font size during an ssh session and by updating the default profile. Modify font via settings, apply changes, and save for future sessions.
Change text color in putty3:01
Change the text color in Putty by adjusting foreground and background colors during a session, then modify and apply the settings and save them as the default for future sessions.
Putty keepalive intervals2:48
Configure PuTTY keepalive intervals to prevent session disconnects by sending blank packets every 1–3 seconds and save the settings.

Author best practices3:16
Learn best practices for setting up Putty for SSH, including editing the default profile, enabling logging, configuring the bell, scroll, colors, and keepalive, then create dev and prod profiles.
Putty tricks - 1: Ensure Putty is always on top of other windows0:11
Putty tricks - 2: Store userid and password in Putty for autologin0:20
Putty tricks - 3: How to restrict PuTTY window re-size0:21
Putty tricks - 4: PuTTY Event Log0:17
Putty tricks - 5: Run putty in full screen mode0:13
Putty tricks - 6: Transfer Files Using PuTTY0:11
Bonus Lecture: Grab your discount for my paid courses1:35

Requirements

You should be able to use PC at a beginner level
Linux machine configured on virtual box or vmware

Description

PuTTY is a free and open-source terminal emulator, serial console and network file transfer application. It supports several network protocols, including SCP, SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw socket connection. It can also connect to a serial port. The name "PuTTY" has no definitive meaning.

Master advanced Putty settings that help you to quickly access your Linux servers

Download and Install putty on windows machine
Create and edit profiles in putty
Launch Linux GUI interface using Xming with Putty
Log your putty session into text files for future reference
Change putty terminal font size, color and disable bell sound
Putty best practices in real time - Author advise

Quick reference course for one of the highly used SSH tool Putty

PuTTY was originally written for Microsoft Windows, but it has been ported to various other operating systems. Official ports are available for some Unix-like platforms, with work-in-progress ports to Classic Mac OS and macOS, and unofficial ports have been contributed to platforms such as Symbian, Windows Mobile and Windows Phone.

PuTTY supports many variations on the secure remote terminal, and provides user control over the SSH encryption key and protocol version, alternate ciphers such as 3DES, Arcfour, Blowfish, DES, and Public-key authentication. It also can emulate control sequences from xterm, VT102 or ECMA-48 terminal emulation, and allows local, remote, or dynamic port forwarding with SSH (including X11 forwarding). The network communication layer supports IPv6, and the SSH protocol supports the zlib@openssh delayed compression scheme. It can also be used with local serial port connections.

PuTTY comes bundled with command-line SCP and SFTP clients, called "pscp" and "psftp" respectively, and plink, a command-line connection tool, used for non-interactive sessions.

PuTTY consists of several components:

PuTTY: the Telnet, rlogin, and SSH client itself, which can also connect to a serial port
PSCP: an SCP client, i.e. command-line secure file copyPSFTP: an SFTP client, i.e. general file transfer sessions much like FTPPuTTYtel: a Telnet-only clientPlink: a command-line interface to the PuTTY back ends
Pageant: an SSH authentication agent for PuTTY, PSCP and Plink
PuTTYgen: an RSA, DSA, ECDSA and EdDSA key generation utility
pterm: a standalone terminal emulator

Who this course is for:

Anyone who uses Putty for ssh connection to Linux servers
All the users who are learning Linux administration
All Oracle DBAs who run their database on Linux server
Existing users who wants to learn advanced Putty options

The ultimate Putty guide: Using Putty for SSH

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Course content

Introduction to Putty4 lectures • 6min

Getting Started with putty3 lectures • 5min

Crate and save profiles in putty4 lectures • 7min

Invoke Linux GUI in putty using Xming3 lectures • 10min

Advanced Putty options6 lectures • 21min

Putty Best Practices8 lectures • 6min

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