Comments on: PuTTY for OS X? No thanks.

By: CB

CB — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:49:58 +0000

One thing putty is nice about is allowing the use of a http proxy to tunnel my ssh connection through. My company forces all ssh traffic through ssh.mycompany.com and putty is the only client I’ve ever seen to allow the use of this. If you know of another, please let me know!

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:22:30 +0000

While the built-in terminal is good for 90% of people it’s emulation is lacking in several key areas. Putty bests terminal in completeness of it’s emulation, accuracy of emulation, and surprisingly UTF-8 accuracy. It would be great to see a cocoa native putty derivative some day.

By: Beat

Beat — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:02:03 +0000

Yes! I know JellyfiSSH iTerm and “builtin” ssh. I can work with screen or tmux too. But as System Engineer I have at work sometimes a bunch of open PuTTY sessions. What I miss most is the ability to reconnect or duplicate session with one mouse click. When you are troubleshooting a big network with tons of switches and routers, then You know the benefits of it. And if you have something on the serial console too, it has exact the same Interface. And ad Winfried says: The Cut and Paste behavior is strange. But extreme fast and easy.. PuTTY was for me the most valuable free (MIT Licence) Windows tool ever. It is a pity, that nothing similar is available for OSX

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:26:56 +0000

I’d love to see an example of how to use the serial capabilities.

RE: “Furthermore, I can also relatively easy store session-specific profiles in putty.”

It is extremely easy to add configurations for ssh as well. Simply edit ~/.ssh/config and add entries with your favorite text editor like so:

Host myhost
Hostname myhost.somewhere.net
Port 2222 (optional)
User me (optional, if different from your local account)
Host myotherhost
Hostname myotherhost.elsewhere.net

Plus you can specify local / remote forwards, etc. Then you can simply do:

ssh myhost

And it’ll look it up in your config with whatever options you’ve specified. You can also have global options by using Host *

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By: Winfried Maus

Winfried Maus — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:05:24 +0000

I don’t know – somebody even ported putty to Linux, so obviously there seems to be a demand for putty on Unixes or Unix-like platforms.

The thing is, once you got used to putty’s weird copy & paste behaviour (via marking and right-clicking), you simply expect this functionality in telnet and ssh sessions. It’s actually quite handy and easy to use when you work a lot with Cisco routers.

Furthermore, I can also relatively easy store session-specific profiles in putty.

Since putty (and WinSCP) are some of my mostly used tools at work – where I use a Windows notebook – why should I switch to using something else when I’m in Linux, FreeBSD or OS X? Isn’t this one of the blessings of Open Source and multi-platform applications that I more or less can use my favorite apps no matter what system I’m using?

So – yes, please, bring putty to OS X.

Other than that, you wrote a very nice and helpful article. Thanks for that!

By: Odessa

Odessa — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:12:14 +0000

thanks!

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