Problem :
On Linux the ssh command has a -t option whose man page reads:
Force pseudo-tty allocation. This can be used to execute arbitrary
screen-based programs on a remote machine, which can be very useful,
e.g. when implementing menu services. Multiple -t options force tty
allocate, even if ssh has no local tty.
I would like to use this same option with PuTTY on Windows. In particular,
I can see that PuTTY has a bunch of options under:
Category -> Connection -> SSH -> TTY
and suspect it might be possible to achieve the same behavior via some
of the (NUMEROUS!) settings found on this screen. Anyone know how to
configure the following command:
ssh -t USER,PROJECT@shell.sourceforge.net create
Thanks!
Solution :
I don’t think there would be any point for this option in PuTTY.
Normally, ssh on UNIX creates a TTY on the server side if and only if there is a TTY on the client side. Since you may use ssh both in a terminal, or from a script (where there’s no terminal attached), this option makes sense on UNIX. But PuTTY only works with a terminal, so there’s no point in forcing the TTY allocation on the server side, as it should always happen even without forcing.