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📣 sam345

Alternative to Putty for Multiple Sites?


I've been looking around for an alternative to Putty for use on Windows. I like Putty but I need something better to manage multiple logins, better searching, possibly tagging, etc. Would like something open source and actively developed. KiTTY seems to be a one-man show and not updated frequently. Any suggestions?


  👤 runjake Accepted Answer ✓
OpenSSH client and server comes with Windows 11 as an optional install. I would recommend using that and configure your ~/.ssh/config with your hosts and host-specific options[1].

OpenSSH is the defacto SSH standard. If you use it, VSCode will automatically read your SSH config file for remote editing of files[2].

1. https://linuxize.com/post/using-the-ssh-config-file/

2. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh


👤 speedgoose
Windows Terminal and the OpenSSH client? It comes with Windows nowadays.

👤 tamimio
MobaXterm is a good option, but been a while since I used windows and I don’t know the current status.

👤 hitpointdrew
Been awhile since I had Windows as a daily driver for work, but years ago I used to use mRemoteNG https://mremoteng.org/. It was awesome, as I could bookmark SSH and RDP connections in one place and organize them in a folder structure. It also had tabs for multiple active connections.