Re: PuTTY for tunnelling with no window?
From: Duncan Murdoch (murdoch_at_stats.uwo.ca)
Date: 09/28/04
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:45:28 -0400
On 27 Sep 2004 16:24:23 +0100 (BST), Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com>
wrote:
>Duncan Murdoch <murdoch@stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
>> Is it possible to configure a PuTTY session to do tunnelling, but not
>> to display any window?
>
>Owen mentions that work in this area is planned for the near future.
>
>Specifically, I'm planning to implement the -N option (avoid opening
>a shell session on the server). I'm willing to consider turning off
>display of the window as part of the same piece of work, but I'd
>need some details about how you expect the interface to work.
>Specifically, once you've started up your background PuTTY, how
>would you expect to get at it to close it down if it doesn't display
>a window?
As dwalin suggested, showing up in the pageant menu would be great.
Alternatively, a new entry in the tray with its own menu would be
okay.
By way of context, I've been using OpenSSH with ssh-agent and ssh
tunnelling started from a Cygwin bash window, and shutting them down
using kill in Cygwin. However, my latest Cygwin upgrade doesn't let
me detach them from the Cygwin window and creates zombie windows if I
forget and exit before shutting down the processes. This motivated me
to switch to PuTTY; I like the switch so far.
>It seems clear to me that in normal use you wouldn't bother - you'd
>just leave it there until you logged out of your Windows session and
>expect it to detect that and close itself down. But what if you set
>up the tunnels wrongly? You'd want to be able to ask it to terminate
>in some way. How would you expect to be able to do that?
There's always Ctrl-Alt-Del and End Process, but something slightly
more friendly would be nice.
Duncan Murdoch
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