Posts tagged Putty
How to Change PuTTYs Default Settings [Windows]
May 12th
Every time I launched PuTTY, I had to either manually set the colours and the lines of scroll back, or create a profile just to save the settings I desired. PuTTY stores its settings in the registry. Here’s a short tutorial on how you can modify PuTTYs registry settings to change its default startup values. [...]
Create an SSH Auto Login Shortcut for PuTTY [How to]
May 8th
PuTTY supports ssh autologin with its command line parameters. Here’s how you can create a desktop shortcut to automatically login, with password, to a ssh server using PuTTY. Download PuTTY. Right click on desktop and choose New > Shortcut Click Browse, navigate to and choose putty.exe Append the location with the PuTTY command line parameters [...]
Scroll beyond the default limit in Putty Session
Mar 23rd
We have seen earlier how we can keep Putty alive and save the colour settings. Here is another tip. By default, there is a limit on the number of lines you can scroll back in a Putty session, 200 lines. When you need to read a long file or keep track of things for longer [...]
Prevent Putty session from going inactive [How to]
Mar 17th
Frequent users of putty should have encountered the Putty (inactive) problem. This happens because servers are usually configured to disconnect idle sessions after they are inactive for a particular time. This has many disadvantages. You can no longer monitor the jobs running in the background and the UP arrow for previous commands may not work. [...]
How to make Putty remember colour settings
Mar 14th
I use Putty at office and at home for all my telnet/SSH needs. Previously, I had to set my desired colours every time I launched it. When I poked around I found what I was doing wrong. The trick to making Putty remember colour settings for each saved session is to set the colours BEFORE [...]
