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[ThatScriptGuy]

Lately I've been working a lot with 3 or more open SSH connections at once and have found putty to be extremely lacking when trying to navigate between them. What SSH client do you guys use, free or paid? I would prefer it to have some sort of tabbed interface and also would prefer that it could save my passwords for the few servers that I use password authentication on.

[elicitservers]

How about the best of both worlds?! In the links on the putty site has this:
http://puttycm.free.fr/cms/

I've used it previously, its basically a tabbed interface to the putty executable, and you can keep a database of SSH logins.

[MichelleH]

SecureCRT is my favorite! I would be lost without it

[ThatScriptGuy]

@elicit...I have actually tried the tabbed putty program and had stability issues with it.
@Michelle - SecureCRT looks promising. Downloading the demo.

[bear]

Originally Posted by MichelleH

SecureCRT is my favorite! I would be lost without it

Just moved to this from Penguinet, and haven't looked back. SecureCRT is a far better program, in my opinion.

[pubcrawler]

What platform are you running?

We just use ssh from commandline along with Terminator (terminal enhancement).

Love Terminator because we can group terminal together and broadcast what we are typing out to the group of remote servers. Works for generic or identical configs of say 3-4 machines at a time.

Putty is still very popular under Windows, but needs some additional new features.

You should look into passwordless SSH sessions where you have your key information saved locally. Writing a shell script (if using linux) to spawn multiple sessions in say Terminator would be what I would try.

[offshoresolutions]

Originally Posted by elicitservers

How about the best of both worlds?! In the links on the putty site has this:
http://puttycm.free.fr/cms/

I've used it previously, its basically a tabbed interface to the putty executable, and you can keep a database of SSH logins.

This - Putty connection manager is great.

[unixorn]

Originally Posted by ThatScriptGuy

Lately I've been working a lot with 3 or more open SSH connections at once and have found putty to be extremely lacking when trying to navigate between them. What SSH client do you guys use, free or paid? I would prefer it to have some sort of tabbed interface and also would prefer that it could save my passwords for the few servers that I use password authentication on.

Several connections at a time? SecureCRT bar none. Pay for it, it is worth every penny. http://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/ You can even program "buttons" on the button bar to do specific commands.

Let's say you use "find -maxdepth 1 -type d | while read dir; do echo $dir; echo cmd2; done" often and you don't want to type it each time or even cut/paste from a file. Program one of the buttons to do it and you just click for the command.

[ThatScriptGuy]

Let's say you use "find -maxdepth 1 -type d | while read dir; do echo $dir; echo cmd2; done" often and you don't want to type it each time or even cut/paste from a file. Program one of the buttons to do it and you just click for the command.

That sold me. Purchasing as soon as I get back home....

[TonyB]

SecureCRT it's well worth every penny.

[sasha]

Originally Posted by unixorn

Let's say you use "find -maxdepth 1 -type d | while read dir; do echo $dir; echo cmd2; done" often and you don't want to type it each time or even cut/paste from a file. Program one of the buttons to do it and you just click for the command.

Slightly bit of topic and probably not news for most here but ... One of the most useful builtin bash features is reverse history search. So you just start typing ANY part of one-liner you posted and hit ctrl+r - that will search your history for the last time you typed it in and put it in the prompt.

[BarackObama]

Just my 2 cents...maybe its time to switch to linux distros as there are lot of ssh clients that provides a tab and much more..

Originally Posted by ThatScriptGuy

Lately I've been working a lot with 3 or more open SSH connections at once and have found putty to be extremely lacking when trying to navigate between them. What SSH client do you guys use, free or paid? I would prefer it to have some sort of tabbed interface and also would prefer that it could save my passwords for the few servers that I use password authentication on.