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terri1888

03-19-2013 08:10 PM

Problems connecting with putty

I was wondering where the best place to go to learn more about Putty. I am now having a hard time getting it to take my password. It worked fine a few times; however, I was trying to open another team computer and could not get it to open so I changed some of the settings and now I am having trouble with both machines.

Emerson

03-19-2013 08:18 PM

I believe putty can take command line arguments (although I have no Windows to try it out). Something like

Code:

putty user@hostname

should give you a password prompt when launched from a terminal (or whatever it is called in Windows).

Code:

putty hostname -l username

should work, too.

terri1888

03-19-2013 08:25 PM

Putty

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emerson (Post 4914816)

I believe putty can take command line arguments (although I have no Windows to try it out). Something like

Code:

putty user@hostname

should give you a password prompt when launched from a terminal (or whatever it is called in Windows).

Code:

putty hostname -l username

should work, too.

Thank you very much! I will go try it right now and let you know how it goes. Thanks again!

I was able to get a prompt for my passcode but it would not take the passcode for some reason.

shivaa

03-19-2013 10:08 PM

It will work by using full path of putty software's location in your Windows Run prompt:

Code:

C:\Users\Jack\Desktop\putty

OR

C:\Users\Jack\Desktop\putty.exe

OR

C:\Users\Jack\Desktop\putty.exe username@hotname

If you wish to learn more about putty, go through it's online documentation, follow here and here.

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