Putty Tutorial

This is a short guide for using PuTTY to access the General Use (genuse) Linux servers.
Putty is an SSH client (Secure Shell).
Putty (putty.exe) can be downloaded here.

Login to genuse server using putty

  • Launch putty
  • Check the connection type is SSH and Port: 22   (should be default)
  • Enter Host name:
  • Host Name can be any General Use Linux Machines.   Add the domain '.smu.edu'.   For example: genuse50.smu.edu
putty login example

Select 'Open' button
If you see the "PuTTY Security Alert" dialog box, Select "Yes" to add the key.
A "Terminal" will open where you can enter your genuse username and password.

Optional - Save Putty Session

The session may be saved by naming and selecting the 'Save' button on the right hand side.
Subsequent Putty sessions can select the saved sessions and select 'Load'

putty save session

Optional - Specify username with hostname

The "Host Name" field supports username@hostname.

putty shortcut with username@hostname in hostname field