PuTTY

In this post, how to SSH login using PuTTY without typing username. As you can see, by default, you need to type the username for login every time starting a connection.

In some cases, you get the following error when trying to connect to a Linux system using PuTTY with private key authentication.

In some cases, in PuTTY, after changing the font, text color, background color…. for the current session. When you close and reopen a new session, the changes are reverted to default.

While the latest release as of the time of PuTTY does not have a built-in method to import or export sessions or settings, PuTTY does store its data in the Windows registry. So provided you have the correct access on the machine you can use the Windows registry to accomplish this task.

While the latest release as of the time of PuTTY does not have a built-in method to import or export sessions or settings, PuTTY does store its data in the Windows registry. So provided you have the correct access on the machine you can use the Windows registry to accomplish this task.

In some cases, you get the following error when trying to connect to a Linux system using PuTTY with private key authentication.

In some cases, you get the following error when trying to connect to a Linux system using PuTTY. Even you’ve configured all settings correctly.

In some cases, in PuTTY, after changing the font, text color, background color…. for the current session. When you close and reopen a new session, the changes are reverted to default.

In PuTTY, after login into a Linux remote system. You need to switch to the root account manually or run command with the sudo prefix.

PuTTY is hands-down the best SSH client for Windows. It’s light-weight with a single putty.exe file and nothing else to install. In some cases, you may want to export PuTTY settings or sessions to another computer.