Comments on: PuTTY for Windows and ssh:// handler

By: maksym

maksym — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:39:02 +0000

@JPM: I tested it on Vista, 64-bit, it works.

As for 64-bit, due to how registry works in 64-bit OS (there are different branches depending on whether you’re using 64-bit regedit or 32-bit regedit), you need to import it carefully. Can’t remember from the top of my head, but have a look at my other post about Sitebar. The method to run the “correct” regedit would be similar…

By: JPM

JPM — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:09:35 +0000

Forgot to mention 64 bit

copy putty.exe %windir%\SysWOW64

it’s working!

By: JPM

JPM — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:49:20 +0000

Great enhancement but unfortunately the registry changes don’t seem to work in Windows 2008 R2 (maybe vista too but haven’t tested)

By: CryptoJones

CryptoJones — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:40:07 +0000

Thanks so much!!

By: maksym

maksym — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:35:04 +0000

@Schubi: No, I’m not planning that, as that already works – at least with FF 3.5?

By: maksym

maksym — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:33:12 +0000

@Mike: That’s because you’re likely to have a private key loaded in memory through pagent.exe – so putty.exe tries to authenticate with that key first. If it bothers you, create a profile for your 123.45.67.89 and check the box to authenticate using the usernames only.

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:07:13 +0000

Worked like a charm, you rule very much.

By: Schubi

Schubi — Thu, 28 May 2009 05:35:40 +0000

@maksym: I suppose the ability to put ‘ssh://123.45.67.89′ into the addressbar of Firefox and to startup PuTTy.

By: Shadus

Shadus — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:27:27 +0000

Putty already allows you to specify user name and password on the command line for the ssh protocol. One place I worked used this command line in the “url” section of keepass to allow them to connect.

cmd://C:\progra~1\putty\putty.exe -ssh {TITLE} -l {USERNAME} -pw {PASSWORD}

Not as pretty as the protocol version, but it gets it done. If you assume that the ssh protocol uses the same syntax as the ftp protocol when used you would get syntax something like this…

ssh://username:password@hostnameoripaddress

Which is also more than the telnet: handler in putty supports also after a cursory look at the code.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:52:58 +0000

when I open ssh://username@hostname:22 I get:

Using username “root”.
Access denied
root@123.45.67.89‘s password:

Any reason why it tries to authenticate first? I’d rather not have an access denied entry in the log because of a legitimate SSH request.