PuTTY copy and paste container within SSH

Question

I use PuTTY all the time to SSH into a server. Within that server, I then connect into a container. Within the server, I can use the standard PuTTY copy/paste using highlight and right click to copy and paste. Everything works fine. But when I then exec into the container I can no longer copy/paste. Any ideas of what I need to do/change?

1. Open Server 1 using PuTTY
   • Copy and paste works as expected
2. from the prompt on that server docker exec -it <container> bash
   • Copy and paste no longer works

Any idea what I can do to make PuTTY cut and paste within this container?

Answer 1

Maybe there is some utility that requests PuTTY to report terminal mouse events to the remote host, and the transition into the container fails to reset that? Or incorrect terminal type settings within the container cause a wrong terminal control code to be sent to PuTTY that makes it report mouse events to the remote side instead of performing a local copy/paste?

Anyway, try holding Shift while highlighting/pasting to override any remote mouse event reporting functions and use PuTTY's usual copy/paste.