MTPuTTY – Multi-Tabbed PuTTY
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These days I just SSH out of WSL using ConEmu (https://conemu.github.io/) as the console. Seems to fit my overall workflow the best and gives me a mostly common experience between my Windows and Linux systems; including essentially a tabbed terminal experience. I still use plink.exe from the PuTTY distribution so tools like Git on the Windows side can still behave like they do on Linux using ssh-agent.
Do you type your credentials out each time? What are your options for avoiding that?
Readers: I don't care about your personal policy. This is a feature that I want and I just want to see if you can get it outside of Windows.
This WSL process is no different than I would do with a Linux desktop. On the windows side I do essentially the same thing except I use pageant and plink. This is only for tools which use ssh to access remote services and not for terminal access (as I mentioned I'm using WSL & SSH for that).
Does this feature exist in WSL? Not to my knowledge, but that could simply be that I haven't looked for it. I suppose if you're doing that sort of stored login credential thing, you could just write a little shell script which answered the appropriate prompts without too much trouble... I wouldn't recommend it, but you could probably get it to work.
It takes me never more than a minute or two to do the one time setup for certificates in an new OS install, whether Mac or Linux (at least for personal dev machines). And once done, I'm free to use any ssh tools which use certs, which should be pretty much all of them, rather than those that cache username/password... or compared to the username/password entry time. I definitely end up saving time by reducing redundant entry and by being able to use the best tool for the job sans any other gating factor.
Naturally, this is all preference and you're free to choose things differently than I would suggest... but did want to offer you some food for thought.
I love that I can get Ranger working.
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sourceforge.net/project...
MOBAXterm does have a full X server and X11-Forwarding which is very handy.
Also, multi-term mode can be quite handy at times (if scary)
On the other hand, MultiExec feature is nice for multi-node Wildfly administration :)
PS Sorry I just ruined your morning productivity.
This is a great site to look for alternatives to some common things. I love that you can filter by platform and license, and the votes are a rough indication of viability.
Facebook page (no account required): https://www.facebook.com/ttyplus/
SuperPuTTY saves me so much time and effort when managing multiple instances of the same application across multiple hosts.
Termius, I found to be the best SSH client that works on all devices & OSs, including my laptop on Ubuntu. It's not free but worth the small amount it costs to be able to share connection settings across devices.
... And the Dev has been responsive to requests, issues, etc. On Twitter for me also.
A yearly subscription, too? ugh.
Edit: It is an electron app. Pretty, though.
https://www.netsarang.com/products/xsh_key_features.html
It's worth checking out.
[1] https://royalapplications.com/ts/ [2] http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/
https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH
Edit: Also, the linked site for MTPuTTy doesn't seem to want to load for me.
They are open issues and being actively worked on, but it isn't exactly stable enough to use everyday, at least for me.
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Almost all the issues are intermittent, and you might not be affected, but my luck has been bad:
* Hangs till return, sometimes. [0]
* v-flag can hang. [1]
* Alt sends \0. [2]
* Authentication fails. [3]
* Nmap fills the hard drive when sshd is running. Sometimes. [4]
* Git compatibility isn't quite there. [5]
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[0] https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/874
[1] https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/879
[2] https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/865
[3] https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/855
Still looking for a stable SSH daemon for Windows, because I haven't found one yet, which makes any time I need to work from Windows a real pain.
of course, with WSL, there's not much reason for any of these ssh-on-windows solutions anymore.
Just my luck.
Major features i like:
* adb and cygterm support
* ctrl-scrollwheel zoom
* clickable links (always or while holding ctrl)
* jumplistsCheck out its components page. https://ttssh2.osdn.jp/manual/en/about/module.html
My only complaint is that you have to run ssh as root to map ports < 1024 (a *nix security limitation) while in PuTTY you could just run as an average user.
This has happened many times to folks in my workplace. They come across the PuTTY download page and think that it's a shady looking site, and then continue looking elsewhere.
We instead just deploy putty.exe to everyone's machine directly now.
It's important to note that, especially in large environments, has different skill levels. I know a guy that can go deep into analyzing a kernel dump and figure out exactly what made some obscure application crash, but god help him when it comes to doing basic functions on his Windows PC.
Being good at your sysadmin job doesn't always correlate with correctly identifying shady sites.