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What is PuTTY?

PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Windows and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.

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PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Windows and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.


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PuTTY is a free and open-source terminal emulator, serial console, and network file transfer application developed by Simon Tatham. It supports several network protocols, including SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and SCP, which are commonly used for securely connecting to and managing remote systems. PuTTY is widely used by network administrators and developers for its reliability and extensive configurability. The software is available for Windows and Linux platforms.

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Manuel Ángel G.
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Manuel Ángel G.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Reliable ssh client: enhancing remote management with PuTTY"
What I like best about PuTTY is its simplicity and reliability as an SSH client. It offers a lightweight interface that makes it easy to connect to...
R.T.Saravana K.
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R.T.Saravana K.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Putty usage"
Putty is open source emulator used to execute Unix command, Cobol and shell scripting in linux environment. Very helpful when you start working in ...
Dhaanish S.
DS
Dhaanish S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"PuTTY : Review"
I love using PuTTY because it helps me to connect to other Virtual machines, OS machines by doing SSH.

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Time to Implement

1 month

Return on Investment

10 months

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16%

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Bharathesh H.
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What do you like best about PuTTY?

Putty helps us to get trace logs and logs for which loggers are put in log4j2 file using simple linux commands. It also helps us to give read write access to different files using simple linux commands. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PuTTY?

Sometimes when we try to login using our correct credentials it gives us access denied and the connection gets timed out very quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?

Quickly able to get trace logs because of which it helps me in debugging any issue in the code and also helps me in securing my folders in winscp by giving only read access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Snigdha D.
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What do you like best about PuTTY?

It's a very easy and efficient way of logging into some devices Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PuTTY?

It is incompatible for some Cisco devices Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's helping logging in to network devices very efficiently. It's saving a lot of time and it's a big help during troubleshooting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Oladotun J.
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What do you like best about PuTTY?

Ease of use and a compact GUI to that enables easy navigation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PuTTY?

So far, I have not noticed a disadvantage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?

Remote administration to systems in other countries where cloud instances are running. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pranali S.
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What do you like best about PuTTY?

It is very useful for network engineers. It has graphical user interface and easy to use. We can take SSH, Telnet, Serial and other ports. It is free and open source terminal app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PuTTY?

It comes limited features. It don't have multiple tabs feature. Everytime we have to open new tab for new access. Also sometimes it may have performance issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is beneficial for organization who handle network industry. For network engineers this tool is very useful to take remote access of routers, switches, etc. We can able to take telnet, ssh, serial. It is very easy to use for beginners also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PuTTY?

The tool was easy to use and flexible, Friendly usable interface and easily manageable. Powerful visualizations make for easy analysis,saving session logs and maintain different session logs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PuTTY?

More options needed to save logs in friendly format and also more friendly features, more number of sessions support needed and also more user frienly gui and look and feel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easily customer and lab nodes can be configurable , manageable from this tool and its free and user friendly saving lot of time and money to all users and customers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

niraj p.
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What do you like best about PuTTY?

It's easy to access. It has a Graphical user interface. We can get access of all ssh telnet serial console to console . It's easy to use and it's very user friendly any one can use it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PuTTY?

We don't have any external tabs on it. So we have to again and again open it and we need to get access sereral time. We need to manually connect to server several time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?

Getting access of router and firewalll from it.for router we use serial port that is com port and for firewall we use ssh which is safe for access of firewall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lavesh K.
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What do you like best about PuTTY?

It has simple graphic user interface. We can easily take acces connection of SSH, Telnet.

It is a free and open source terminal application. We can used it for remote access over the network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PuTTY?

It has limited set of features as compared to other terminal emulator. Also it has no automatic reconnection feature and user have to manually reconnect to the server or network and relogin using credentials. It also have limited logging options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?

Secure remote access, Serial console access, file transfer. Benefits of using putty increase productivity, improve security and it has ability to manage remote systems securely and efficiently. Putty is an essential tool for administrator and IT professional. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PuTTY?

Supports multiple protocols, portable, secure and comes with putty-keygen Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PuTTY?

The UI is a bit outdated and not as intuitive as some othermodern SSH clients Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?

It enables quick, hassle-free and secure remote access into remote/ cloud systems from windows systems

It is configurable and has key management built in, which is a time saver Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PuTTY?

Does exactly what it needs to and nothing else. It's easy for a novice to SSH without using CLI, and having a graphic interface also makes life way easier Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PuTTY?

A few features could be refined, such as completely closing out when a session is terminated instead of going back to the menu. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?

SSH into remote servers without using terminal/CLI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shivani R.
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Programmer Analyst 2
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What do you like best about PuTTY?

Very easy and good to connect to linux hosts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PuTTY?

Necessity of in-depth knowledge to use it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easily helps to connect to linux boxes thereby connecting to customer hosts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.