putty saved session

melvinong · 11-13-2007, 04:13 AM

1 )anyone know where the putty saved the setting?

jschiwal · 11-13-2007, 04:18 AM

I think that it saves the settings in the registry.

kangen · 11-13-2007, 04:52 AM

as we speak.. Is there a way to get putty save the private key? I find it a pain in the ass since Ì have to add the key everytime I restart putty..

Or do I have to use an other application? If thats the case, witch application?

jschiwal · 11-13-2007, 06:47 PM

There should be just one private key in the putty directory. You shouldn't need to regenerate it all the time. Are you maybe referring to the password that the server expects? Or maybe the public key of the server? You can save the login information for each connection. If you mean the public key from the server, I think that Putty can use the equivalent of the ~/.ssh/authorized_hosts file which is a file containing all of the id_rsa.pub entries. There is a DSA style entry as well, it depends on what kind of key pair the server generated. Look in the documentation and search for authorized_hosts, you may find it.

I always install Cygwin/X on my Windows computers at work. It has an ssh client and you can ssh into a Linux machine and use X forwarding to display the program running on the server in it's own window on the Windows machine. If you don't have an X11 server installed on the Windows machine, installing Cygwin/X will give you both an X11 server and ssh so you wouldn't need putty.

Putty does have a manual. Many of the same files used for ssh in Linux exist in putty but the names are different. It also has a version of scp and sftp.

kangen · 11-14-2007, 06:33 AM

Ok, let me try it again.. =)

I have generated a RSA keypair and I have copied the key to .ssh/authorized_keys on my linux box. To connect to the server via putty I have to go to SSH/auth and input the path to my private key (on putty) everytime i close putty. Because the path are not saved.

Thats my problem..

Anyway, do you have a link to the app. you are using?