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Sun, Mar 31, 2024 8:11 pm

Configuring PuTTY for X forwarding

The X Window System, aka X11 or simply X, provides a mechanism that allows you to have the graphical user interface (GUI) for an application running on a remote system to be displayed on the system on which you are running X server software. For systems running a Microsoft Windows operating system, you can use the free PuTTY program to establish a Secure Shell (SSH) connection to an SSH server and configure PuTTY to allow X forwarding so that you can run programs on the SSH server, but have their GUI displayed on the Microsoft Windows system on which you are running PuTTY.

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Sat, Mar 02, 2024 9:01 pm

Location for PuTTY Tunnel Information

PuTTY stores information about sessions you have created to connect to a particular host in the Windows Registry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions. If you want to view the SSH tunnels configured for a particular host, i.e., the port forwarding settings for that host, you can navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions\SessionName\PortForwardings where SessionName is the name you have given to the session associated with the host. E.g., suppose you regularly establish an SSH connection to www.example.com and have named a session for that site MySite. You could navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions\MySite\PortForwardings to find the port forwardings settings. If you had named the session My Site, there would be a %20 in the session name stored in the registry as %20 is an HTML representation for the space character. You can doubleclick on the PortForwardings key in the right pane of the registry window to see the values stored in the key. You might see something like the following:

L22011=192.168.0.11:22,L33018=192.168.0.18:33018

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Sat, Jan 21, 2017 11:33 pm

Error occurred message when upgrading freeSSHd

I needed to upgrade freeSSHd, which is free Secure Shell (SSH) server software for Microsoft Windows systems, on a Windows 8 system. The software allows remote users to log into a command line interface on the Windows system via SSH and provides the capability to transfer files via the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP). When I attempted to install the latest version of the software over a prior version, however, the installation was unsuccessful. If you see the following error message, you may need to stop the SSHD service prior to performing the upgrade:

An error occurred while trying to replace the existing file:
DeleteFile failed; code 5.
Access is denied.

Click Retry to try again, Ignore to skip this file (not recommended), or Abort to cancel installation.

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Mon, Feb 29, 2016 11:07 pm

Using SSH Keys with PuTTY

PuTTY is a free and open source network utility that allows you to establish Telnet and Secure Shell (SSH) connections to servers. It is commonly used on Microsoft Windows systms, but is also available for Linux and Apple OS X systems. You can use it for interactive SSH logins where you provide a userid and password to authenticate with an SSH server, but you can also use it for public key-based logins where the server has a public key that is matched against a private key stored on the system from which you are connecting. By a mathematical calculation based on large prime numbers, the public key and private key can be matched with one another as a means of authenticating the login.

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Sun, Feb 07, 2016 8:04 pm

Changing the appearance of a PuTTY session

If you wish to be able to easily distinguish Secure Shell (SSH) sessions to a particular server when using PuTTY, a free and open-source SSH and Telnet client application available for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux systems, you can change the background color used for connections to a particular server through PuTTY's "Change Settings" option, which will allow you to change the background and foreground colors (the foreground color is used for text). Colors are specified by RGB value.

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Fri, Jun 12, 2015 10:12 pm

Port forwarding with PuTTY

The free PuTTY program for Microsoft Windows systems allows you to establish SSH connections. The program includes port forwarding capability, so that you can forward connectivity to a port on the system running PuTTY to a port on the SSH server to which you have connected using PuTTY or even another system accessible from the SSH server. E.g., suppose you can remotely connect to a SSH server at your home or business, but you can't access a web server at home or at the business location remotely. One option you can use is have PuTTY "listen" on the system on which it runs on a port, e.g., port 8888, and for any connection to that port on the local system on which PuTTY is running, forward the connection to the remote web server through the SSH server as explained at Port forwarding to another device with PuTTY. Such port forwarding can be performed to any TCP port.

Alternatively, you can set up a SOCKS proxy using PuTTY as noted at Using PuTTY to set up a SOCKS Proxy Connection. Instructions for configuring some browsers ito use a SOCKS proxy are provided from the links below:

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Wed, Feb 25, 2015 11:22 pm

Where PuTTY Stores SSH port forwarding information

You can configure PuTTY, a free telnet/SSH client program, to port forward connections over an SSH connection by going to "SSH" then "Tunnels" when configuring a session.

PuTTY Configuration - Port Forwarding

Once you've added instances of port forwarding you can't edit those instances through the PuTTY configuration window though you can remove them and add new ones. The information for port forwarding is stored in the registry under the following key where Session_Name is the name for a stored session:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions\Session_Name

Updates are stored when you save a session.

E.g., if I saved a session with the name Omega using the tunneling configuration shown above, the registry entry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions\Omega for a dynamic SOCKS proxy at port 1080 and forwarding for RDP using local port 30,089 forwarded to port 3389 on a system with IP address 192.168.0.5 would be as follows:

Value name:PortForwardings
Value data:D1080=,L30089=192.168.0.5:3389

Regedit - PuTTY Port Forwardings

I could change the details for the port forwardings by editing the registry entry. I would see the changed values when I loaded the session. I could check the information from a command prompt with the following command:

C:\>reg query "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions\Omega" /v PortForwardings

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions\Omega
    PortForwardings    REG_SZ    D1080=,L30089=192.168.0.5:3389

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Sun, Dec 14, 2014 5:45 pm

Copssh Connection Issues

When I tried connecting to a Windows 7 Professional system running Copssh 5.0.1 from PuTTY 0.58 on a Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2003 system, a "PuTTY Fatal Error" window appeared with the message "Couldn't agree a client-to-server cipher (available: aes128ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com,chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com)". I tried connecting from the same system with an OpenSSH_3.8.1p1 SSH client that is part of OpenSSH for Windows and received the message "no kex alg", which may mean "no key-exchange algorithm". When I tried specifying the encryption cipher using the OpenSSH client, I received an error message similar to the one I saw with PuTTY.
C:\Program Files\SSH\OpenSSH\bin>ssh -c 3des jdoe@192.168.0.15
no matching cipher found: client 3des-cbc server aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com,chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com
C:\Program Files\SSH\OpenSSH\bin>ssh -c blowfish jdoe@192.168.0.15
no matching cipher found: client blowfish-cbc server aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com,chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com

When I tried connecting from the SBS 2003 system to another system, to which I could successfully connect with the OpenSSH SSH client, when I specified the -v option for debugging output with ssh -v jdoe@example.com, I saw the following:

debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_6.4
debug1: match: OpenSSH_6.4 pat OpenSSH*
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.8.1p1
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: server->client aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none
debug1: kex: client->server aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none

I upgraded PuTTY on the client system from version 0.58 to 0.63. I then no longer received the message about no matching cipher being found, but, instead saw another "PuTTY Fatal Error" window open, this time with the message "Network error: Software caused connection abort". I saw the same error message when I used PuTTY's plink utility from the command line.

C:\Program Files\Network\SSH\PuTTY>plink -ssh jdoe@192.168.0.15
Using username "jdoe".
jdoe@192.168.0.15's password:
FATAL ERROR: Network error: Software caused connection abort

I installed Bitvise SSH Client (Tunnelier) 6.08 and tried connecting with that client. Like with PuTTY, after I authenticated with the SSH server, I was immediately disconnected. I saw the following from Tunnelier:

First key exchange completed using ecdh-sha2/nistp521. Session encryption:
aes256-ctr, MAC: hmac-sha2-256, compression: none. Attempting password authentication.
Authentication completed.
The SSH2 session has terminated with error. Reason: FlowSocketReader: Error
receiving bytes. Windows error 10054: An existing connection was forcibly closed
by the remote host.

When I was able later to connect to the system running Copssh via RDP for troubleshooting after the user had left for the day, I checked its status log, which you can do on a Windows 7 system by the following steps:

  1. Click on Start.
  2. Select All Programs.
  3. Select Copssh.
  4. Select Copssh Control Panel.
  5. Under the Status tab, you will see an icon that looks like a piece of paper with one edge folded down. You may also see something like "6 events last 15 minutes" next to it. Double-click on that icon.

    Copssh Control Panel status tab

When I checked the log, I saw many "fatal: mm_request_receive: read: Connection reset by peer" messages. There was a "Received SIGHUP; restarting" entry hours later.

2014.12.12 23:26:23 - Received SIGHUP; restarting.
2014.12.12 18:30:02 - fatal: mm_request_receive: read: Connection reset by peer

Seeing that, I tried establishing a connection with PuTTY again and was then able to log in by SSH successfully.

But then when I tried logging in remotely by SSH two days later the problem was back. I restarted the service within the Copssh Control Panel by clicking on the green button next to "Service is running" to stop the service. When the button turned red, I clicked on it again to restart the service, but that didn't resolve the problem; I still got the "Network error: Software caused connection abort" message when I tried connecting via PuTTY 0.63 and I saw the "fatal: mm_request_receive: read: Connection reset by peer" message in the Copssh log for evey connection attempt. Though I didn't expect it to resolve the problem, I tried the "net stop" and "net start" commands from a command prompt.

C:\Users\Administrator>net stop "OpenSSH SSHD"
The Openssh SSHD service is stopping.
The Openssh SSHD service was stopped successfully.


C:\Users\Administrator>net start "OpenSSH SSHD"
The Openssh SSHD service is starting.
The Openssh SSHD service was started successfully.

But that did work. I was then able to successfully log into the system via SSH.

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Mon, Nov 17, 2014 9:57 pm

COPSSH permission denied message

When I tried connecting from PuTTY on a Windows 8 system to a Windows 7 system running Copssh, a free OpenSSH-based SSH server package for Microsoft Windows systems, I received the message "Disconnected: No supported authentication methods available (server sent: keyboard-interactive)", which appeared in a "PuTTY Fatal Error" window. When I tried connecting using OpenSSH on a SBS 2003 system, I received the message "Permission denied (keyboard-interactive)." I received the same message using the ssh client on a Mac OS X system.

I opened the Copssh control panel on the system and clicked on the Users tab. I had been trying to login with a domain account, but found that the activated users list showed only two local accounts on the system, but no domain accounts. When I clicked on the Add button to add a new user, I found that for the "Domain" setting, the only option I could choose was the local system, since its name appeared, but there was no other value to select in the drop-down list. When I tried using one of the listed accounts for the user name and password, I was able to successfully log in by SSH.

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Sat, Oct 19, 2013 10:01 pm

Pasting from PuTTY to Linux

If you are using PuTTY for SSH or telnet connections to a Linux system and need to copy and paste text from the Microsoft Winodws system on which PuTTY is running into a file or application on a Linux system, you can paste the data you've copied into the clipboard on the Windows system into the file/application on the Linux system by hitting both buttons on your mouse simultaneously or by hitting the Shift and Insert keys simultaneously.

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