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Recommend ssh client with session/automation

  • 30-03-2007 11:18am
    #1
    daymobrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,532 ✭✭✭


    Right now I am trialling SecureCRT ssh client for Windows.
    The big feature is the session/automation support, something like bookmarks in a browser (see attached screenshot). I double click on a session name and it logs me in, runs a few commands and gets my environment set up ready to do. Without this automation I'd be doing a bunch of typing each time I connected to one of my many machines. I log into the machines many times a day. It costs about 100 euro.

    Is there a freeware/open source app that has similar automation? I have putty but that doesn't have the same session/automation support (at least not AFAIK). Correct me if I am wrong.

    Does anyone have a recommendation for a free ssh client for Windows with the session feature that SecureCRT has?

    (also posted at Windows forum)


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  • #2
    koloughlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 97 ✭✭koloughlin


    You can save sessions in putty. When you've got your configuration set up the way you want it click on session in the left pane, type a name for your session under the "Saved Sessions" box on the right pane and click save.

    The next time you use putty you can just double click that session name.

    For setting up the environment I normally put that in the .bash_profile (for bash) or .profile (for bourne) of the user I'm logging in as. The advantage of this is that it becomes independent of the ssh client you connect with.

    Looking at putty it looks like you can set environment variables under Connection > Data and you can send remote commands under Connection > SSH, but I've never tried either of those two options.


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