SSH Client - (newbie need help)

[Jay Moore]

On Friday 23 July 2004 07:58 am, Ralph Hempel wrote:
> > Im a newbie to FreeBSD and I need to run an SSH client
> > to connect to the Solaris server at my University. I
> > was previously using Putty on WinXP, however there
> > appears to be a bug in the current putty port which
> > causes it to crash before exchanging keys if the
> > servers key is not cached.
>
> Is there a bug, or just a warning message that says the
> new key is not cached? I'm using PuTTY 0.54 right
> now and it works great.

Ditto - PuTTY has been rock-solid for me. I use it currently on Win2K & WinXP. 
If you're having problems using PuTTY the problem is likely elsewhere.

But as this is the FreeBSD mailing list, you can most certainly use the ssh 
client here as well: ssh usernam at hostname.whatever.com

One diff I've noticed: In the case of a changed key, PuTTY's default is to 
issue a warning, and allow the user to decide whether or not to continue the 
connection; the OpenSSH client's default is to abort the connection.

Jay