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Anyone know if the vuln is in KiTTY? They're a lot more active fork of putty and there's a few memleak notes from back in October/November when this was originally discovered but nothing related I can see.

I've previously use regedit to export the contents of HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY (right-click the key name and export the selected branch). That gives you a .reg file - running it on your target PC will import the settings there.

There's also KiTTY - a fork of PuTTY - which I believe has some command-line options for saving settings in config files.

I know everyone else is chiming in with their specific preferences over your recommendations, but I need to as well: I gotta say I prefer Kitty to Putty.

Also, pretty much anything Ninite is worth getting, while I'm here. Ninite gives you an installer for many free programs without the hassle of adware with them (mcafee coming with adobe acrobat reader, for example) and does them all at once.

Kitty is better than putty. Back when I had to use windows, I always used a full deployment of cygwin just so I could use a shell in a sane way.

Best case scenario: get a vm and use the real SSH client.

I am using KiTTY in the image, but the problem persists if I ssh from gnome terminal or from my phone using ConnectBot.

This is the output of locale:

locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory LANG=en-US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en-US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en-US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en-US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en-US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en-US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en-US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en-US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en-US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en-US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en-US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en-US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en-US.UTF-8" LC_ALL=

The only thing I have set is LANG=en_US.UTF-8 in /etc/locale and uncommented the same line in locale.gen.

Localectl status:

System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 VC Keymap: us X11 Layout: us X11 Model: pc105+inet X11 Options: terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp

The server is headless, it has never had a display plugged into it.

EDIT: I fixed it, I used a goddamn hypen instead of an underscore in /etc/locale.conf between en-US.UTF-8.

>So this will enable skipping the Username.

This will prevent you from typing username each time. PuTTY will type it for you automatically.

>For the password PuTTY does not offer any setting?

No, you can't save password in PuTTY. Likely due to security reasons, i.e. no cleartext password will be saved to disk.

There is a PuTTY's fork http://www.9bis.net/kitty/, it can save passwords.

I use KiTTY which is based on PuTTY. http://www.9bis.net/kitty/ for me it comes as part of Portable Apps. One super awesome feature of KiTTY is ability to launch WinSCP from within an open session without asking for a password.

That's very cool.

Another program windows users might be interested in is kitty, a fork of putty, and it also has the ability to act as a terminal, so you can use it with cygwin shells, cmd.exe, powershell, etc, and is resizeable and such.

My main issue was that I used it for web development. Having a LAMP stack on my laptop that was the same as my server was great. These days I normally just develop on the server, since I got faster net access. I use KiTTY for SSHing into my servers and I have a full unix shell.

I'm using Python whenever I need to do any heavy scripting, partly because it's cross platform and partly because that Google guy was so darn cheerful when I was watching his tutorial videos.

are you sure you are not getting the 'Kitty' program that is a fork of putty, mixxed up with the Kitty terminal emulator? I was confused when googling up on kitty, until i realized the 2 projects were using the same name.

I dont see any mention of windows on the kitty homepage.

the terminal emulator is -> https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/#quickstart

The Putty Fork is --> http://www.9bis.net/kitty/

I did get kitty going here on Ubuntu 18.04 on KDE.

The Kitty docs refer to..

>Increase background opacity ctrl+shift+a>m

>Decrease background opacity ctrl+shift+a>l

>Full background opacity ctrl+shift+a>1

>Reset background opacity ctrl+shift+a>d

~~I have a great many years of linux experience, and i have NO clue what they mean by ctrl+shift+a>l Unless its some sort of mac type notation for keyboard shortcuts. (Edit: Looking in the kitty.conf mentioned below, it discusses the syntax)~~

EDIT: Figured it out.. You hit

Ctrl-Shift-a, then release those, then 'd' and I get a message..

> You must set the dynamic_background_opacity option in kitty.conf to be able to change background opacity >

So i enabled that and reran kitty.. Nothing..

After using Kitty for a bit, i really dont see what i gain from it, over the other terminal emulators.

Reading through the kitty.conf example from here https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/_downloads/kitty.conf

• It seems there's some things to watch out for - with opacity it seems to be saying that With the color themes you need specific colors for the feature to work.

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Good Luck.

PuTTY or KiTTY (a fork of the PuTTY project) are both free for Windows.

MTPuTTY and SupperPuTTY are both also free, and utilize the PuTTY/KiTTY client to give you multiple SSH sessions in tabbed format.

Use this string in the PuTTY logging settings to have it write a log file to your local C:\ drive and append date & time to each session:

C:\Putty_Logs\Putty -&H, &M-&D, &T.txt

Wild guess: Did you modify /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist? iOS 7 is particularly... sensitive to modifications done here, unlike earlier iOSes.

Also, if you're using iFunBox Classic for Windows, go to sonny3006's iPhone -> USB Tunnel, then connect to your phone using an SSH client like KiTTY, then run dpkg -l > packages.txt as root. Then upload that file (it'll be in /var/root/packages.txt)

Also, try running the following commands:

chmod 755 -R /User/Documents/ chmod 755 -R /User/Library/ chown mobile -R /User/Documents/ chown mobile -R /User/Library/ chgrp mobile -R /User/Documents/ chgrp mobile -R /User/Library/

And if you're using OS X... reply to this comment.

> Speaking of Putty, KiTTY is a scriptable version of putty.

Outta curiosity, what do you mean by "scriptability?" Is this kind of autohotkey, but specific to ssh?

Or do you mean what they're showing here with an "auto login script" ?

I am reminede once of someone trying to get 'kitty' working and showing configs that were totally wrong.. they had confused the 'KiTTY' ssh client ( http://www.9bis.net/kitty/#!index.md ) with the KITTY terminal emulator. https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/index.html

there was a LOT of confusion in that support thread..

There are two forks of putty that added automatic reconnect: KiTTY and ExtraPuTTY.

You just have to enable it, like by disabling automatically closing the window at the end of a session. In KiTTY go to: Config > Connection > Reconnect Options > "Attempt to reconnect on connection failure". (To change the timeout till reconnect on KiTTY you can use the portable version, open the .ini file, and change the line #ReconnectDelay=5 to remove the # and change the number to the number of seconds you want.)

No love for kitty?

The new one, not the old one.

I can't compare it with many other (my cli craze is kinda recent), but so far it's fast, customizable, featureful, stable and yet very much evolving.

KiTTY is a fork of PuTTY. I have not browsed their site much since they are ad blocker hostile (which is an immediate deal breaker in my book).

Tera Term Pro is also a possible choice, which isn't mentioned much, but does the job.

I did a bit of googling around. Did you came across KiTTY yet?

Check if you can get X11-forwarding working with KiTTY on a thumbdrive or something (it doesn't need admin privileges), then you should be able to see your linux host's desktop environment and work from there.

I've not tested this solution at all.

• Kitty (Download) - If you like/use Putty you should try this one. You can download it and all your saved sessions from Putty will be in there because it's basically just a pimped version of Putty. (more accurate Description)

SSH into the Pi... http://www.9bis.net/kitty/

Get your Pi's IP, enter it there, hit connect, enter your user and password when prompted. Then you can just start using it. Things like omxplayer will still output to the Pi's GPU.

Get Kitty, an ssh client, and connect to your machine with it.

Then it's all fairly easy actually. Assuming you run some debian-derivate it's just:

sudo apt-get remove teamspeak # If teamspeak isn't installed via the package manager you'll get an error here along the lines of: # E: Unable to locate package boobspeak sudo apt-get install mumble-server sudo nano /etc/mumble-server.ini

In the file /etc/mumble-server.ini you're opening with nano, go to somewhere around line 70, there you will find a line like:

welcomtext="<BR />Welcom to this server running <B>Murmur</b>.<br/>"

Change that to what you want your connecting users to be greeted with but remember to keep the "s around the text.

A bit below that line, around line 80, there's a line with

serverpassword=

Change that to what you want for a password for connecting like

password=hunter9

Hope I haven't missed anything, glhf!

This is pretty much exactly what I was looking for, although it took me awhile to figure out how to do it. I'd tried kiTTY before, but didn't know to add the patches and configure an ini file.

If you're going to try it out, here's how to do it.

1. download PuTTYCyg patch for Cygwin 1.7 <---direct link to the download:
   • or find it here
2. extract the zip to the same folder as kitty.exe (I recommend putting kitty.exe in its own folder and creating a shortcut to it on your desktop, but that's just a personal preference.)

3. Open the kitty.ini file and add these lines:

   [KiTTY] cygterm=yes backgroundimage=yes

   [ConfigBox] windowheight=800

4. Open kiTTY and go to Window > Background, and edit the options. Be sure to change "Background Style" to "Image" and to save the preferences for your session.

The "[Config Box]" option isn't needed for a background image, but I've found that kiTTY's window isn't big enough to display all the options. This increases the size of the window so you can view all the options.

Yeah. :( While you can install the built-in client, it isn't very good anyway so you might as well install PuTTY (or KiTTY).