About

PuTTY is a client program for the SSH, Telnet and Rlogin network protocols.

These protocols are all used to run a remote session on a computer, over a network. PuTTY implements the client end of that session: the end at which the session is displayed, rather than the end at which it runs.

In really simple terms: you run PuTTY on a Mac machine, and tell it to connect to (for example) a Linux or Windows machine. PuTTY opens a window. Then, anything you type into that window is sent straight to the Linux or Windows machine, and everything the machine sends back is displayed in the window. So you can work on a external machine as if you were sitting at its console, while actually sitting somewhere else.

This download includes the following tools:

• PuTTY (the Telnet and SSH client itself)
• PSCP (an SCP client, i.e. command-line secure file copy)
• PSFTP (an SFTP client, i.e. general file transfer sessions much like FTP)
• PuTTYtel (a Telnet-only client)
• Plink (a command-line interface to the PuTTY back ends)
• Pageant (an SSH authentication agent for PuTTY, PSCP and Plink)
• PuTTYgen (an RSA and DSA key generation utility)
• Pterm ( a Terminal emulator for X)