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Open connection configuration settings for the server for which we are enabling auto login.You can use the session created above to do auto login from Putty connection manager.

Otherwise, you will be asked to enter the passphrase and then connection will be established.Īuto login with Putty connection manager: If you have chosen empty passphrase in the key generation, ssh connection will be established automatically.

Now onwards whenever you want to connect to this server, you can select this session and lick on ‘ open‘ button.

Enter a new name under ‘ Saved sessions‘ and save it.

Now go to the ‘ Session‘ in the settings.

Click on browse button and add the path for the private key file which we saved in step 6.

Go to the node Connection -> SSH -> Auth.

In the text box ‘ Auto-login user name‘ enter your login name on the server

Save the generated private key using the ‘ Save private key‘ button.

You will also need to enter the pass phrase you used for generating the keys in ssh-key command.

Click on the Load button, and select the private key file we copied from the server.

We need to convert this private key to something that putty understands.

The private key we have is open-ssh key and putty does not understand this.

Copy the private key generated on the server to the client computer from where you will be connecting to the server.

Make sure to append the key (‘>’), otherwise existing keys in the authorized_keys will be deleted. Your identification has been saved in /home/user/.ssh/id_rsa. ~]$ ssh-keygenĮnter file in which to save the key (/home/user/.ssh/id_rsa):Įnter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): You will be prompted to enter some passphrase, you can leave it empty if you want.

This will generate public and private keys. You will now end up with a bunch of unique log files for the various putty sessions and you’re building your own great putty-reference-database in the log directory specified.If authorized_keys file does not exist, create it with the below command. Already saved sessions will not be affected by this setting, you have to change these sessions separately. Will now log its output to a (new) logfile. The next step is save this new log settings to the Default Settings profile in putty the Default Settings profile contains your….uh…Default Settings :). I am using some putty parameters which will make every session unique, in this case “&H-&Y&M&D-&T.log”, which means: Select all session output and specify a log file. This is pretty simple: open putty and go to Session->Logging. When you want putty to log all your session output, you have to change the default settings. In this way you always have a great reference/history available, which contains all previous commands and output of earlier telnet and SSH sessions. I think it’s a good idea to always log the telnet and SSH session output of every session to a file. Putty has the option to log telnet and SSH traffic session output to disk.

Putty is a simple but great tool for this purpose! I am using putty for telnet and SSH connections to ESXi hosts, switches and/or filers.