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How to fix PuTTY showing garbled characters? [closed]

You almost certainly have set the wrong character set in your PuTTY settings. Verify the character set on the remote system by running the command: locale This should return something like: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=”de_DE.UTF-8″ LC_NUMERIC=”de_DE.UTF-8″ LC_TIME=”de_DE.UTF-8″ LC_COLLATE=”de_DE.UTF-8″ LC_MONETARY=”de_DE.UTF-8″ LC_MESSAGES=”de_DE.UTF-8″ LC_PAPER=”de_DE.UTF-8″ LC_NAME=”de_DE.UTF-8″ LC_ADDRESS=”de_DE.UTF-8″ LC_TELEPHONE=”de_DE.UTF-8″ LC_MEASUREMENT=”de_DE.UTF-8″ LC_IDENTIFICATION=”de_DE.UTF-8″ LC_ALL= So check your PuTTY settings under Translation and ensure that … Read more

How to make PuTTY settings persistent? [closed]

Make your settings changes and then click on “Default Settings” under “Load, save or delete a stored session” (This is in the “Session” category) to select it. Then click “Save.”

How to recover from “Too many Authentication Failures for user root”

Are you sure that root login to ssh is allowed? Check sshd_config and verify that root login is permitted. sshd will need to be restarted if the setting changes.

Automating command/script execution using PuTTY

PuTTY has the -m switch, that you can use to provide a path to a file with a list of commands to execute: Where the commands.txt will, in your case, contain a path to your shell script, like: Though for automation, your better use the Plink command-line connection tool, instead of the GUI PuTTY application, as you have already found … Read more

Saving the PuTTY session logging

It works fine for me, but it’s a little tricky 🙂 First open the PuTTY configuration. Select the session (right part of the window, Saved Sessions) Click Load (now you have loaded Host Name, Port and Connection type) Then click Logging (under Session on the left) Change whatever settings you want Go back to Session window and click the Save button Now you have settings for this session set (every … Read more

Putty vs WinSCP

WinSCP is for file transfer to and from your server while PuTTY is used to interact with the server directly. Putty is just a command line interface to your server. WinSCP is a file transfer application using Secure FTP.

Convert PEM to PPK file format

Use PuTTYGen Creating and Using SSH Keys Overview vCloud Express now has the ability to create SSH Keys for Linux servers. This function will allow the user to create multiple custom keys by selecting the “My Account/Key Management” option. Once the key has been created the user will be required to select the desired SSH Key … Read more

PuTTY PSCP error “Local to local copy not supported” when username contains a slash

Yes, it’s the backslash. To workaround it, use an -l switch to specify the username. Background: The PSCP looks for the first colon, slash or backslash in the target. Only if the first symbol is colon, it considers the target as remote, otherwise as local.

putty – server unexpectedly closed network connection on windows

To create and save a new keep-alive connection, follow these steps: Open the PuTTY application, and go to the Options panel (labeled “Category”) on the left of the window. Select (click) the “Connection” item. In the ”Sending of null packets to keep the session active” area on the right, change the default value of “Seconds … Read more

Transfer files to/from session I’m logged in with PuTTY

This is probably not a direct answer to what you’re asking, but when I need to transfer files over a SSH session I use WinSCP, which is an excellent file transfer program over SCP or SFTP. Of course this assumes you’re on Windows.

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