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Which one would you recommend nowadays, PuTTY or (the fork) KiTTY?
by muterad_murilax 8y ago
Which one would you recommend nowadays, PuTTY or (the fork) KiTTY?
- Nux 8y agoNeither, try Mobaxterm if on Windows.
- aargh_aargh 8y agoConvenient for the built-in Xserver, but not open source.
- LogicX 8y agoTermius has some nice features - questionable since it's closed-source.
- PebblesHD 8y agoIf you have a recent version of Windows, the copy of OpenSSH you get with Bash for Windows would be ideal, as you then use the same tools everyone else does eliminating the Putty specific setup and terminal emulation bugs Windows devs generally need to go through. If you really need to use it, stick with Putty, as even then you benefit from other people having the same setup steps and experience, and as such common issues are more likely to be resolved. Side thought: why doesn’t Putty follow a more normal setup and configuration process, i.e. why does it have its own private key format and tooling around that instead of using standards?
- mjw1007 8y agoI've always assumed that PuTTY used its own private key format because the OpenSSH one was terrible until about 2013. See eg https://latacora.singles/2018/08/03/the-default-openssh.html https://latacora.singles/2018/08/03/the-default-openssh.html (which is from 2018, but I think the weakness has been well known for a long time).
- JdeBP 8y agoSee https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18915747 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18915747 .
- fanf2 8y agoThis wishlist item includes lists some advantages of PuTTY’s private key format: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/key-formats.html https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/...
- treypitt 8y ago"Bash for windows" are you referring to WLS?
- PebblesHD 8y agoAhh good point, yes I mean WSL, not the extra tools that come with Git on Windows.
- kerng 8y agoSsh is now part of Windows, I haven't used Putty since.
- sys_64738 8y agoAre you referring to OpenSSH via WSL or the Windows port of OpenSSH? Latter I thought was still in development. Just checked Windows 10 1803 and it appears to be installed by default on my work Windows machine. Nice!
- mr_toad 8y ago> why doesn’t Putty follow a more normal setup and configuration process Putty is ancient. It was perfectly normal c.1999.
- zenexer 8y agoWSL lacks compatibility with devices such as YubiKeys, unfortunately.
- cillian64 8y agoI couldn't find a terminal emulator I liked for WSL so now I use PuTTY SSHed to localhost to login to WSL...
- silverwind 8y agoYou might like wsltty (https://github.com/mintty/wsltty https://github.com/mintty/wsltty). It's mintty for WSL which in essence is putty with just the terminal capabilites.
- magicalhippo 8y agoOn Windows I've switched to the Bitvise SSH Client. SFTP built-in, keygen and manager built in, RDP support (creates tunnel, spawns Remote Desktop client automatically). Then again I'm not dealing with anything mission critical, so it not being open source doesn't bother me too much.
- bnjms 8y agoAt that cost I’d just go with Secure CRT.
- magicalhippo 8y agoClient is free. Their SSH server is free for personal, non-commercial use.
- bnjms 8y agoOh didn’t see that. Never mind.
- justinsaccount 8y agoopenssh
- Rondom 8y agoI second that. The latest versions of Windows even have OpenSSH included.
- jstewartmobile 8y agoI really like openssh under cygwin on Windows. Having a ~/.ssh/config file has been a lot easier to work with than PuTTY's list box of hosts, and I can share my config across my Linux & Mac boxes. For serial port connections, PuTTY is fantastic. Thank you Simon!
- muxator 8y agoSame for me, cygwin is a godsend, and has been for a long time.
- NelsonMinar 8y agoYou might want to check out WSL; it has the exact same convenience as cygwin, but is now coming direct from Microsoft.
- jstewartmobile 8y agoOne day I will probably have to do that. Until then, I'm sticking with cygwin. If it ain't broke...
- bproven 8y agoOn Win 10, install WSL and use the ssh client there. If I have to use a win box as a workstation I never use Putty if I have that option.
- adontz 8y agoWhile it's not free, so IDK if it's acceptable to you, I highly recommend XShell and XFtp. They are so good, I even miss them under Lunux. To be more specific, some features I like most. 1) Rich window layout options, very important for my comfort 2) Edit multiple connections at once 3) Group connections in folders
- rk06 8y agoAt work (win 7), I use SSH which comes with git-bash.
- bnjms 8y agoCompare for yourself. Only you know your workflow issues well enough to judge. PuTTY and WinSCP make a goood combo, and MobaXterm is okay, but I prefer and use SecureCRT. SecCRT has some competition I haven’t tried but it’s the best I’ve seen so far.