Mike Leone on Mon, 17 Sep 2001 16:09:22 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] SSH question


> Putty first needs to know who you're trying to connect to the remote host
as.
> I've read in Putty's docs that if you configure a session and save it, you
> can then specify user@session_name to automaticly provide the id.  If
> need be you can also create a shortcut for it:
>
>   putty user@session_name

I can't seem to get this to work - I did save a session (called
"Mike-session"); however, if I type

putty MJL@Mike-session

(and yes, my user id on that hosts is all in CAPS)

nothing happens. This is from a command prompt window in Win2K.

> I am currently using putty and pagent on win2k with the same
public/private
> keypair that I use under Linux with openssh and it works fine - if I don't
> specify the username, it prompts me - if I do, it asks me for the
passphrase.

Lucky you. :-(




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