Dec 18, 2004 - geek    7 Comments

Portable SSH using puTTY

http://skit.id.au/tools/putty.rar

Just a little something I put together based on the instructions from the puTTY documentation.
Except this one actually cleans out everything from the local PC.

Launching puTTY using the .bat will allow you to use puTTY save settings, then once finished it will export the settings from the registry and save them from where you first launched puTTY. Also it will then delete the registry entries and also cleanup all other traces of puTTY. When you go to use it again it will import the registry entries thus making your settings portable and leaving the system clean. *evil grin*

Great for use on floppy (If your still in the dark ages) or a USB Key.

Enjoy!

  • http://www.intuitiveye.com David Frey

    Very cool solution to the puTTY portability problem. I don’t like leaving a trail behind me when I sit down to work at public workstations and this makes it easy to maintain. Thanks for posting it!

  • TEM

    The one thing I worry a little about, if using this on a USB key, is… isn’t the flash memory supposed to wear out more quickly if it is used for frequent, repeated writes and erasures?

    I set up a package very similar to this and was using it on at least a daily basis, but I used a floppy because I didn’t like the idea of the frequent writes to my various forms of flash memory.

    Can anyone confirm or disavow my paranoia? :)

  • Skit

    USB Flash drives, from what I’ve read, have around 1mil read/writes.
    Saying that I know of people how have been using their USB Flash drives for 12months+ with no issue.
    After 12months it might be time to ‘upgrade’ as the physical integrity of the product may be questionable from the daily use.

    Also another alternative, but more expensive, would be perhaps a USB Laptop HDD. Still mostly pocket sized and plenty more storage. Just depends on what you need to carry with you.

  • jakub

    Hi, some of my friends wanted portable Putty too, so I wrote a patched putty – see http://jakub.kotrla.net/putty/.

    For more I found via google another guy has solved this problem too – http://www.webservertalk.com/archive94-2004-6-260257.html

  • http://skit.id.au Skit

    Brilliant!

    Thanks for the links. :)

  • http://www.9bis.net/kitty Cyd

    Hi,

    Here is another implementation of portable PuTTY with many other “cool” features

    KiTTY: http://www.9bis.net/kitty

    Cyd

  • http://skit.id.au Skit

    [quote comment=""]Hi,

    Here is another implementation of portable PuTTY with many other “cool” features

    KiTTY: http://www.9bis.net/kitty

    Cyd[/quote]

    Thanks Cyd, I’ll have to give it a try.