Re: Is Putty a full replacement of the command line (openssh) client ?

From: Joe (joe_at_jretrading.com)
Date: 07/19/05 

Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:28:27 +0000

Peter Meister wrote:
> I wonder wether the well known Putty software is a full replacement for the Openssh client
> (=command line ssh.exe)?
>

To be honest, I don't know everything the OpenSSH client can do. I
use OpenSSH at home, but only as a command line tool to a machine
on the same network.

> In other words can I setup port redirections/tunneling for other software (e.g. MailClient)
> with the help of Putty as well or is Putty only a telnet client for an SSH server?

Yes, I use it to access web and IMAP servers. Open a connection and
a port on the remote machine appears to be one on the local machine.

It also comes with scp (pscp) and other utilities.

>
> If it works as a full SSH client: Is there somewhere a good tutorial on how to set it up
> for a port redirection?
>

I think I worked it out fairly easily from the supplied documentation.

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