On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Jeff Hemminger wrote: > Most of the default distro installs come with ssh at least. > So maybe you can try "ssh -l <your login> -h <host>" instead of using putty? He definitely should do that. PuTTY is a Windows program that was written because ordinary (non-Cygwin) Windows users didn't have an ssh program built into their system. Linux has no need for PuTTY. In Linux/UNIX, I like to use rxvt windows to display my ssh session: rxvt -n Compy -T "ssh: `whoami`@`hostname`: connected to Compy" -e ssh MyCompyUsername at compy.some.net & This also works with xterm if you replace the "rxvt" with "xterm". I like to make aliases that do this for various computers that I connect to often. You have to have X11 installed for this to work. Mike