How to Download and Use KiTTY SSH Client on Windows

Kitty is a terminal emulator that can give you protected remote access to another computer. KiTTY can be compared and has almost the same features and functions as PuTTY but has some features that do not exist in PuTTY. In this guide I will show you How to download, install and use Kitty SSH Client on Windows. You may want to learn How to Generate SSH keys in Windows 11 and how you can Convert a PEM Key to a PPK Key on a Linux and Windows. Do you know How to enable Telnet in Windows 10 and Windows Server?.

Some of these features and functions are an automatic login script, an automatic password, a session launcher, and a session filter. This remote access software is open-source and free just like PuTTY software but more secure.

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Steps To Install and Use KiTTY SSH on Windows

1. First thing to do is to download the latest KiTTY version. Browse to fosshub.com and search for Download KiTTY. There is KiTTY Windows classic, KiTTY Windows portable, and KiTTY Windows no compression.

You can decide to download any of these versions. For the purpose of this guide I will download the Windows classic version.

Please Note: There’s no installation process, just download KiTTY and run the program instantly.

Benefits of using KiTTY without installing

These are a few reasons for downloading KiTTY without installing it:

• If you are using a public computer, or third-party system and do not want your activities to be detected or traced.

• If you do not have administrative privileges for installing applications on the specific computer then this SSH Client application is your next best option.

2. There is no need for installation on your system so after downloading the file, double-click on the file.

3.. The KiTTY configuration window is shown like this.

Connecting to a Server Using the KiTTY SSH Client

4. If you want to connect to a remote server using KiTTY SSH Client then configure all these on the Session Category:

• Enter your server’s IP address or domain name. make sure your server is SSH Enabled.
• Leave the default port for SSH as 22 unless your Linux server uses a different port.
• Select SSH and Telnet as the connection type since you use KiTTY to SSH to your server.
• Enter a name for this particular connection and save it to the saved session. This is because whenever you want to use this connection you can just select it because you already have it in your saved session.

Connecting to Amazon Linux Server

I will be using my Amazon Linux Server as the connection receiver from the KiTTY SSH Client. Make sure you save your paired key as this will be needed for a successful authentication of your connection.

SSH Authentication

5. Navigate to Connection and expand SSH. Click on Auth and browse to where you save the Private key or pair key you created for the Amazon Linux Server. Then return to the KiTTY Configuration Session section.

6. On the KiTTY Configuration enter the Amazon Linux Server IP with the port on 22 and click the Open button. The next thing you will see is the PuTTY Security Alert, click the Accept button.

7. Enter your server username. My Amazon Linux Server username is “ec2-user”. Once the connection is authenticated successfully you will be able to login to the server via the KiTTY SSH Client.

FAQs

I hope you found this blog post on how to download, install and use Kitty SSH Client on Windows Interesting and helpful. If you have any questions do not hesitate to ask in the comment section.