PuTTY is an open source SSH and telnet client developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform. Putty is a light-weight standalone application, that is easy to learn.

In addition, Putty also supports - Rlogin, Raw and Serial connections.

Putty is a well know tool among system and network administrators. However, Putty can be a handy tool for programmers, DBAs, and QA Testers as well, when working with Unix/Linux based systems.

Putty comes with many settings to customize your sessions to your project needs. 

• Download and install Putty - Quick way & Installer way.

• Learn to launch duplicate & multiple sessions quickly.

• Establish SSH sessions to the same server with a different/same username.

• Customize & Tune Putty with various settings.

• Use X11 Forwarding to access Linux GUI.

• Automatically SAVE your SSH session to a file.

• Tips & Recommendations (Working on adding more)

• Securely Transfer files

• Using other tools/components that come with Putty

• Understand & Use RSA key-pair for Password-less authentication.

• Create a Linux Virtual Machine (EC2) in AWS & SSH into your own AWS Linux Machine.

• *** NEW *** Learn PuTTY Session Manager

• *** NEW *** Learn MobaXTerm

• Putty Cheatsheet (Coming Soon)