1 \cfg{man-identity}{plink}{1}{2004-03-24}{PuTTY tool suite}{PuTTY tool suite}
3 \H{plink-manpage} Man page for Plink
5 \S{plink-manpage-name} NAME
7 \cw{plink} \- PuTTY link, command line network connection tool
9 \S{plink-manpage-synopsis} SYNOPSIS
11 \c plink [options] [user@]host [command]
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14 \S{plink-manpage-description} DESCRIPTION
16 \cw{plink} is a network connection tool supporting several protocols.
18 \S{plink-manpage-options} OPTIONS
20 The command-line options supported by \cw{plink} are:
24 \dd Show version information and exit.
28 \dd Show verbose messages.
30 \dt \cw{-load} \e{session}
32 \dd Load settings from saved session.
36 \dd Force use of SSH protocol (default).
40 \dd Force use of Telnet protocol.
44 \dd Force use of rlogin protocol.
52 \dd Connect to port \e{port}.
56 \dd Set remote username to \e{user}.
60 \dd Read remote command(s) from local file \e{path}.
64 \dd Disable interactive prompts.
66 \dt \cw{-pw} \e{password}
68 \dd Set remote password to \e{password}. \e{CAUTION:} this will likely
69 make the password visible to other users of the local machine (via
70 commands such as \q{\c{w}}).
72 \dt \cw{\-L} \cw{[}\e{srcaddr}\cw{:]}\e{srcport}\cw{:}\e{desthost}\cw{:}\e{destport}
74 \dd Set up a local port forwarding: listen on \e{srcport} (or
75 \e{srcaddr}:\e{srcport} if specified), and forward any connections
76 over the SSH connection to the destination address
77 \e{desthost}:\e{destport}. Only works in SSH.
79 \dt \cw{\-R} \cw{[}\e{srcaddr}\cw{:]}\e{srcport}\cw{:}\e{desthost}\cw{:}\e{destport}
81 \dd Set up a remote port forwarding: ask the SSH server to listen on
82 \e{srcport} (or \e{srcaddr}:\e{srcport} if specified), and to
83 forward any connections back over the SSH connection where the
84 client will pass them on to the destination address
85 \e{desthost}:\e{destport}. Only works in SSH.
87 \dt \cw{\-D} [\e{srcaddr}:]\e{srcport}
89 \dd Set up dynamic port forwarding. The client listens on
90 \e{srcport} (or \e{srcaddr}:\e{srcport} if specified), and
91 implements a SOCKS server. So you can point SOCKS-aware applications
92 at this port and they will automatically use the SSH connection to
93 tunnel all their connections. Only works in SSH.
97 \dd Enable X11 forwarding.
101 \dd Disable X11 forwarding (default).
105 \dd Enable agent forwarding.
109 \dd Disable agent forwarding (default).
113 \dd Enable pty allocation (default if a command is NOT specified).
117 \dd Disable pty allocation (default if a command is specified).
121 \dd Force use of SSH protocol version 1.
125 \dd Force use of SSH protocol version 2.
129 \dd Enable SSH compression.
133 \dd Private key file for authentication.
137 \dd Remote command is SSH subsystem (SSH-2 only).
139 \S{plink-manpage-more-information} MORE INFORMATION
141 For more information on plink, it's probably best to go and look at
142 the manual on the PuTTY web page:
144 \W{http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/}\cw{http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/}
146 \S{plink-manpage-bugs} BUGS
148 This man page isn't terribly complete. See the above web link for
149 better documentation.