Linux Administration Handbook, Second Edition

26.1. Logging in to a Linux system from Windows

Users may often find themselves wanting to head for the snow-covered slopes of a good C shell or bash session without abandoning the Windows box on their desk. From the client’s perspective, the easiest way to accomplish this is to use the telnet program that Microsoft ships with Windows. These days, though, most Linux systems have (wisely) disabled their telnet servers for security reasons. People who want to log in need a terminal emulator that understands SSH.

See page 697 for more information about SSH.

There are several SSH implementations for Windows. Our current favorite, the open source PuTTY, is simple and effective. It supports many of the features you have come to expect from ...