Configuring Putty

Back to the Putty section on the Installing extra applications for Windows 10 page

The best way to use PuTTY, is to use it with Pageant:

Start Menu => Putty menu => Pageant (this will just put the Pageant icon in the rightmost part of the taskbar, the icon may even me masked)

Right-click on the Pageant icon and choose:

New session to define a new server you want to connect to

Recommended settings:

Saved Sessions to connect to a server

Add key to select a private ssh key and type/store the matching pass phrase (if you have a private ssh key you generated on Linux, you need to convert it with Putty Menu => PuTTYgen)

Installation

Download and install the latest version of Putty

Adding and configuring a new session

Making ssh tunnels with Putty

Using ssh keys

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