Save SSH Login Profiles with PuTTY
[ 16 May 2011 ]
Marked under security, time savers, windows.
If you use PuTTY a lot for your SSH uses, you may find yourself continually typing in the same credentials a lot to log in. This is a handy guide on how to set up profiles for your logins and even call them right from application shortcuts.
First, create a profile be entering in a Host Name and a Saved Session name. Then click Save:
Now close PuTTY and create a standard shortcut to it:
Right-click the shortcut and go to Properties:
In the Properties after the path to putty.exe and after the final double-quote (“), enter in the following: -load “YourProfileNameHere” -l yourUserName -pw yourPassWord
