Putty - Automatically closes on authentication

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Rutwick Gangurde picture Rutwick Gangurde · Jul 24, 2015 · Viewed 38.5k times · Source

I'm on a Windows 7 machine. I am using the Putty.exe executable for connecting to my remote machine. I enter the right credentials, and click open. The console pops up with the following and closes with no errors or warnings.

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How do I make it work?

Answer

Yuxiang picture Yuxiang · Apr 20, 2016

Check Putty setting: Connection > SSH > Remote command.

Try to tweak or simply remove the remote command and see if it helps solving the issue.

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