PuTTY

PuTTY is a free SSH and Telnet client for Windows, but is now also available for UNIX systems including Linux. It is small and includes a terminal emulator, which makes it ideal to use when you're stuck on a Windows machine, but need to access your Linux machine.

Besides PuTTY, there are also several companion tools available:

• PSCP -- PuTTY Secure Copy, a SCP client.
• PSFTP -- PuTTY sftp client
• Plink -- PuTTY Link, command line interface, useful in scripts
• PuTTYgen -- generate SSH public and private keys
• Pageant -- SSH authentication agent for PuTTY, PSCP and Plink
• pterm -- PuTTY's terminal emulator for UNIX

For GUI SCP and SFTP client see WinSCP

See also

• connecting to Linux from Windows
• interoperability
• Homepage
• Patches for GSSAPI / Kerberos support on Windows