{"id":595,"date":"2012-02-21T04:58:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T09:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/?p=595"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:59:06","slug":"putty-utility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/putty-utility\/","title":{"rendered":"PuTTY Utility: A Beginner&#8217;s Guide to SSH and Telnet"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><!-- \t\t@page { margin: 0.79in } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --><strong>PuTTY is a terminal emulator. The client part supports the protocols:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>SSH<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Telnet<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>rlogin<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>TCP crude<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>This is Free Software released under the MIT license. Its main features are:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Retains the settings of the hosts and their preferences for future use.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Control the encryption key and the version of the SSH protocol.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>It includes an SFTP client command line called psftp.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>It includes an SCP client command line called pscp.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Allows control of the port translation (port forwarding) on \u200b\u200bSSH dynamic local and remote.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Supports IPv6.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Supports encryption 3DES, AES, Arcfour, Blowfish, DES.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Supports public key authentication.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Supports Telnet, SSH, and rlogin, and RS-232.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>There is a command line version called Plink.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>No installation is necessary; simply run the downloaded executable to use.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>PuTTY does not generate a backup file for the parameters. These are stored in the register at the hive:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cHKEY_CURRENT_USER \\ Software \\ SimonTatham \\ PuTTY \\ Sessions\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/PuTTY1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-598\" title=\"PuTTY\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/PuTTY1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/PuTTY1.jpg 456w, https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/PuTTY1-300x284.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PuTTY is a terminal emulator. The client part supports the protocols: This is Free Software released under the MIT license. Its main features are: PuTTY does not generate a backup file for the parameters. These are stored in the register at the hive: \u201cHKEY_CURRENT_USER \\ Software \\ SimonTatham \\ PuTTY \\ Sessions\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[145],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-discussion","tag-putty-utility"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5639,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/5639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}