Advertising Disclosure
Advertising disclosure
Independent resource: Putty.info is an independent educational website about PuTTY and SSH. It is not affiliated with, operated by, sponsored by, or endorsed by the official PuTTY project or Simon Tatham. We do not host PuTTY binaries.
Putty.info may display advertising to support hosting, monitoring, and editorial maintenance of free educational content.
How ads are presented
Ads are labeled as advertising or sponsored where the platform allows. We do not permit ads to impersonate primary download buttons or to sit in a way that deliberately tricks users into installing unrelated software. Official download guidance always points toward allowlisted official hosts via paths such as /download/ and /go/official-download/.
Editorial independence
Advertising does not decide our technical conclusions about verification, host keys, or safety. If an advertiser’s landing page conflicts with safe-download guidance, trust the educational article and official project links. We may block categories that commonly distribute PUAs or fake SSH tools when controls are available.
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If you see an ad on Putty.info that mimics a PuTTY installer or otherwise looks deceptive, report it via the contact form with a screenshot if possible. Include the page URL and approximate time.
Field notes and runbook extras
Additional operational depth for Advertising Disclosure (path /advertising-disclosure/): treat every change to authentication, forwarding, or host-key storage as a reversible change under change control. Record the PuTTY version string from Help → About, the Windows build, and whether Pageant was running. Those three facts explain a surprising fraction of “it works on my laptop” discrepancies.
When documenting the procedure for teammates, include: the saved session name, Host Name and Port from the Session panel, whether Connection type is SSH, the username, whether a PPK path is set under Connection → SSH → Auth, and whether agent forwarding is enabled. Explicitly state that Putty.info is an independent educational site and that binaries must be obtained from the official project download page. Link readers to safe download guidance, host key verification, and the official manual so they can cross-check labels that differ slightly across releases.
If you still need more diagnostics after following the sections above, reproduce the issue with logging enabled under Session → Logging to a local file you control, scrub secrets from the transcript, and compare against server auth logs for the same UTC timestamp. Avoid third-party “PuTTY fix” utilities. Prefer updating to the current stable release from official hosts, re-importing a known-good saved session, and testing from a second network path before declaring the workstation broken.
- Keep private keys passphrase-protected and backed up offline according to your organization's secret-handling policy.
- Prefer named saved sessions over ad-hoc connections for anything beyond a one-off debug.
- Disable unused tunnels and agent forwarding by default; enable them per session only when required.
- Schedule periodic key rotation and remove stale authorized_keys entries during access reviews.
- Teach new operators the difference between connection errors and authentication errors before giving them production bastion access.