As of release 6.1, uCon supports a "plink" backend. Plink is the command line portion of the open-source PuTTY client (see copyright below). For details on PuTTY, refer to http://www/chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty. In the nutshell, this gives uCon the ability to connect to remote servers via SSH and RLOGIN, with SSH being the primary motivation for this capability.

The plink connection dialog box is started through the menu item Config->Backends->Plink and allows the user to enter the arguments that would normally be passed to plink at a command line interface...

To initiate the SSH client, type in the username followed by an '@' sign followed by the name of the machine you wish to connect to (refer to the example in the dialog box), then click OK.

Theoretically, any set of command line arguments that could be passed to plink.exe at a console window should be able to be placed in this dialog box as an argument to plink. That being said, below is the help output of plink when run at the command line...

PuTTY Link: command-line connection utility

Usage: plink [options] [user@]host [command]

("host" can also be a PuTTY saved session name)

Options:

-V print version information and exit

-pgpfp print PGP key fingerprints and exit

-v show verbose messages

-load sessname Load settings from saved session

-ssh -telnet -rlogin -raw

force use of a particular protocol

-P port connect to specified port

-l user connect with specified username

-batch disable all interactive prompts

The following options only apply to SSH connections:

-pw passw login with specified password

-D [listen-IP:]listen-port

Dynamic SOCKS-based port forwarding

-L [listen-IP:]listen-port:host:port

Forward local port to remote address

-R [listen-IP:]listen-port:host:port

Forward remote port to local address

-X -x enable / disable X11 forwarding

-A -a enable / disable agent forwarding

-t -T enable / disable pty allocation

-1 -2 force use of particular protocol version

-4 -6 force use of IPv4 or IPv6

-C enable compression

-i key private key file for authentication

-m file read remote command(s) from file

-s remote command is an SSH subsystem (SSH-2 only)

-N don't start a shell/command (SSH-2 only)

Note that as of this writing, the only thing that has been tested with uCon is the default SSH client running through a slightly modified version of plink release 0.58; however, you're welcome to experiment and let me know what works and doesn't work!

PuTTY is copyright 1997-2006 Simon Tatham.

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