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Comment by syntheticnature

7 days ago

Indeed, a new hire should be able to use Google to find https://puttygen.com/download-putty#Download_PuTTY_on_Linux_... in short order

evil grin

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petee  7 days ago

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

puttygen.com looks super fishy, the disclaimer:

> Puttygen software is not created, nor supported by Puttygen.com. The program has been tested and is believed to be safe. [...] The use of Puttygen through Puttygen.com is done at your own discretion and risk

Edit: or is that the evil grin?

glitchc  7 days ago

apt install putty seems... useful? Don't get it.

  • YoshiRulz  7 days ago

    PuTTY is (or was, in the years before WSL) the go-to SSH client for Windows. If you're a Windows user getting onboarded at a job / uni class which uses Linux machines, installing it is the first thing you'd be told. The laptop in question would obviously have a terminal emulator and SSH client pre-installed, but a Windows user wouldn't think to look for them, and they might not even know that SSH exists outside of PuTTY or that it's a separate concept to the terminal.

    • glitchc  7 days ago

      Sure, I'm well-aware, and am also aware that someone familiar with a GUI-based way of doing something on one OS may seek the same, or similar, GUI on another (new) OS. It's a familiar anchor in a sea of unknown, a natural thing to do for most users.

      I still don't follow the evil grin. Is the apt package some kind of malware or trojan?

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