how to use ~/.ssh/config with Windows/PuTTY?

configuration git putty gitlab

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Yes you can! But it's another path where the Putty settings are stored. Where exactly the Putty configuration is stored is system dependant, but you can use a PuTTY session name just as if you would use a hostname for ssh to use that with git, at least with the git port for windows. That way you can set the auto-login user or other session features with the PuTTY client, save a session under a name you can remember and use the saved session name as a git host.

Git for Windows can use both, an integrated ssh client and the putty client. I never tried that on linux. There are several guides how to use that, when you search the internet.

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Sybil

Updated on September 18, 2022

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Sybil over 1 year

How can I use ~/.ssh/config with Windows/PuTTY? Are PuTTY settings stored in the registry? I wish to have my PuTTY settings in git. So it needs to be a human readable text file.
- Admin almost 9 years
  
  I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because The question appears to ask if Putty settings are store in the registry, this is a unlix/linux forum.
- Admin almost 9 years
  
  @XTian - PuTTY is a Windows and Linux application. Shown here: linuxtechi.com/install-putty-in-ubuntu. Wikipedia page lists it as both too: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PuTTY. Granted the OP is asking in the title w/ "Windows/PuTTY" so it's unclear if they this Q is targeted to Windows or Linux but this Q does have some merit.
- Admin almost 9 years
  
  In windows's world putty setting are store in registry, finding where, using google, should be easy. you basically export anything under Simon_Tathman (not sure of spelling tho).
- Admin almost 9 years
  
  On a side note, what do you intend to put under git ? ~/.ssh/config ? or dump of putty registry ?
- Admin almost 9 years
  
  Might be useful to this Q: this Perl script pwin2lin.pl: code.google.com/p/pwin2lin. " simple PERL script to convert Windows PuTTY sessions to Linux PuTTY sessions." - Example of it in use here: mdinh.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/….
- Admin almost 9 years
  
  @slm tks for the clarification. @fyodor, Please help by clarifying your question, I may have misunderstood, but I read that your client is on windows and your server is linux, ~/ssh/config is used by linux clients, the linux server is configured with /etc/ssh/sshd_config ? Windows PuTTY doesn not currently support configuration via files, although there is a work-around mentioned in their documentation. See Section 4.28 the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.64/puttydoc.txt
- Admin almost 8 years
  
  I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because the question still appears to ask about configuring Windows/PuTTY.
Terry over 3 years

I've tried this on Windows and it did work. I've managed to access my Amazon Web Services EC2 instance using PuTTY's plink.exe and entering only >plink.exe saved-session-name on ConEmu.
ikrabbe over 3 years

That's why I posted it, what did you expected ;)
Terry over 3 years

I've posted it for it may help the question be opened :)