Mike Leone on Mon, 17 Sep 2001 16:25:38 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] SSH question


> You might want to try:
>
>   putty -ssh MJL@Mike-session
>
> I think the documentation on Putty states that it uses port 23 by default
> (which is telnet).
>
> > (and yes, my user id on that hosts is all in CAPS)
> >
> > nothing happens. This is from a command prompt window in Win2K.
>
> Nothing at all?  Try saving the session with a name that does not have a
> hyphen [-] in it - that might be screwing up something in the interaction
> between cmd.exe, putty and it's cmdline parsing routines.

If I do a "putty-shh MJL@hostname" and not "putty -ssh MJL@session-name",
it takes me right in. No asking for my passphrase, even tho I've copied the
public key to authorized_keys.

<SIGH>




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