X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Putty and pre-shared keys with Cygwin's sshd Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:33:18 -0800 Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: <1910391597.20120121163937@mtu-net.ru> <1326199340.20120122003455@mtu-net.ru> <1838817585.20120122072825@mtu-net.ru>

<07939498.20120123145658@mtu-net.ru> <835397225.20120123233808@mtu-net.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 In-Reply-To: <835397225.20120123233808@mtu-net.ru> X-Stationery: 0.7.7 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 1/23/2012 11:38 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Andrew DeFaria! > >> What "feature" does putty have that I need? A GUI dialog box that I need to >> fill out to connect to a system? > No, you don't need a GUI dialog box to connect to your system with PuTTY. > Just invoke it with > putty.exe -ssh username@address > > It'll use default session configuration for given connection. I assumed it had other ways to invoke it. I was asking what the advantages are. Many people view a GUI as an advantage. > The main advantages of PuTTY is > 1. Native code. Works much faster, where Cygwin applications are rather slow > to invoke on my system. Hope it'll change with 1.7.10, though. Yes, it may be quicker. However I don't think I can even catch the difference in speed with a stopwatch. > 2. Single-point connection with familiar interface to many, many consoles. > That's a big advantage, if all you ever want 90% of the time is connecting to > other hosts. Not sure I'm understanding this at all. Seems to me with Cygwin it's ssh username@host for any host or username and for putty it's putty -ssh username@host. I'm not sure how the later is better than the former... > 3. Vast configuration options. I've been able to overcome every deficiency of > the remote host I've been connecting to. Including some rather stupid consoles > with insane keymaps. I've never experienced any "deficiency of the remote host" that you speak of... > 4. Which is really should be #1: SSH client is just one of many possible uses. > Modem/serial line terminal client is what I'm using often myself. Referring > back to #2 - a single-point entryway to all possible consoles. I'm only interested in ssh. I haven't used a modem/serial line in some 10-15 years. And if I need to use telnet instead of ssh I simply type telnet instead of ssh. Look I know we all have our preferences and sometimes for good reason. That's why I ask and want to know. There have been times when somebody else's preferences and reasons made me switch because they were compelling. No harm in that... Unfortunately I don't see any compelling reasons to switch 'cept perhaps speed and as I said, to me, it's hardly noticeable... -- Andrew DeFaria A lady came up to me on the street, pointed at my suede jacket and said, "Don't you know a cow was murdered for that jacket?" I said "I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too." -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple