PuTTY is a popular graphical SSH client. Although the Windows client is more widely known, you can get the Linux version by installing the putty package from the Universe repository.

See the windows section for further information about PuTTY.

Using SecPanel

SecPanel is another graphical SSH client. You can get it by installing the secpanel package from the Universe repository.

From Windows

Using PuTTY

PuTTY is a free SSH client for Windows, which you can download from here.

To log in to your computer, type your computer's name or IP address into the "Host Name (or IP address)" box, click on the "SSH" radio button, then click "Open". You will be asked for your username and password, then you'll get a command-line on your Linux computer.

Tip: Keep alive

Your PuTTY (ssh) session will automatically log out if it is idle. To keep the connection active (alive), before you make the connection, select "Connection" on the left of the PuTTY Configuration window, and type 120 in the "Seconds between keepalives (0 to turn off)" box.

Tip: Importing your openssh keys

For security reasons, you should normally create a new SSH private key for every computer you use. However, if you have no choice but to reuse a private key, PuTTY can import an Ubuntu private key with puttygen.exe, as described in the PuTTY manual.

Tip: Generating Public Keys

The PuTTY manual has a section on public key authentication.

SCP and SFTP

PuTTY has command-line SCP and SFTP utilities for Windows that act much like the command-line scp and sftp utilities for Unix-like systems. Alternatively, WinSCP is a graphical utility to transfer files.