Questions tagged [putty]
Questions about using the PuTTY client on Unix/Linux platforms, or about issues where PuTTY behaves differently to other SSH clients when connecting to Unix/Linux hosts. Don't use this tag just because you happen to use PuTTY to connect to your server!
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Why does Ctrl+C clear the current input line in my Python socket-based Telnet-like shell?
I'm building a simple shell server using raw Python sockets (not using telnetlib). The client connects using PuTTY with the Telnet connection type.
The server displays a basic prompt like:
[user@...
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SSH X11 Forwarding - GUI Crashes with X Error of failed request: BadIDChoice
I am:
Running a program on a Ubuntu 20.04 AWS instance
Using SSH & X11 forwarding in PuTTY, with the VcXsrv X-server, to run program GUIs on my local Windows 11 machine
The GUIs of test programs ...
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Synology NAS: spurious message "Display all <n> possibilities? (y or n)" in PuTTY Terminal
I'm getting a "Display all <n> possibilities? (y or n)" dialogue in a PuTTY Terminal connected to a Synology NAS.
The Synology Support people are abdicating responsibility for this, so ...
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Gnome (?) errors when connecting to linux via putty
Oracle linux 7.9
Putty v0.83 on Windows-10
Some of the linux hosts in our fleet are showing the following errors when a user connects via putty (or mobaxterm): (from /var/log/messages)
Feb 21 16:06:...
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sshd: Server refused public-key signature despite accepting key
I am renting a VPS running CentOS Stream 8, for which I set up SSH pubkey authentication for the user "foo". I access it via PuTTY on Windows.
Recently I rented another VPS running Rocky ...
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PuTTY copy and paste container within SSH
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 ...
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How Can I Upgrade Apache to the latest version in RedHat Enterprise Linux When Connected Via Putty
I'm currently administering an Apache applications proxy on a RedHat server, The installed/running version of Apache is 2.4.6. I want to upgrade to the latest version securely. The httpd daemon is ...
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Error after changing ssh port number, Server refused public-key signature despite accepting key
I added the SSH new port number to the sshd_config file:
Port 50000
After that, I restarted the service with
systemctl restart sshd
When I try to connect with the port number I added, I need to ...
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Pass ssh remote command from bash to zsh
I am running a remote putty session from windows to my Red Hat Enterprise Linux server.
Due to company restrictions, I am unable to change my Linux user's default shell from bash to zsh. I instead ...
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key type ecdsa-sha2-nistp521 not in PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms [preauth]
I have trouble setting passwordless authentication on a host:
Sep 21 09:57:36 pvestorage2 sshd[1688625]: userauth_pubkey: key type ecdsa-sha2-nistp521 not in PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms [preauth]
OS: ...
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How to log into a Linux virtual machine when its root user is expired and reason being failed to change password
I created a Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS VM on vSphere. Created a user, test.
VM is a 1-year-old machine. Now when I am trying to log in ( through PuTTY), I can't.
I checked the logs it says that the "...
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Retaining full manual for scrolling in SSH (Putty) terminal
Beginners question:
I am reading a man page called in a ssh (putty) session, i.e:
man usermod
Now this man page has about 252 line, when reaching the end, I press q for quit.
It would be very helpful ...
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PuTTY logging file date time
I use Putty on my job and capture the output with the logging option. What I need to do is have a date and time appended to each line. Is there any way to capture the live PuTTY output and append the ...
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Putty auto-accept "Connect Once"?
When I first run Putty, a window with the button Connect once appears, which means that it does not save cache data.
How can I make it run by default without having to click Connect once every time?
I ...
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Error when login in putty "refusing non sftp session"
When I log with Putty, Putty close after entering the password. When reading the /var/log/auth.log, it says "refusing non-sftp session".
I added a line in /etc/sudoers to have access in ...
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