Putty Settings

[Graig Hoyt]

I have been trying to push Putty settings across all users on one PC
but have not been able to. I have been able to send them to the
desired host but the color and other terminal setting are not also
pushed. Is there a way to do this?

[Cindy Ross]

Post by Graig Hoyt
I have been trying to push Putty settings across all users on one PC
but have not been able to. I have been able to send them to the
desired host but the color and other terminal setting are not also
pushed. Is there a way to do this?

Exporting the settings to a file as described here:
http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.61/htmldoc/Chapter4.html#config-file
and then running the resulting file on the other system works for me.
(I can't say about color, as I think I'm using the default colors.)

[RedGrittyBrick]

Post by Cindy Ross

Post by Graig Hoyt
I have been trying to push Putty settings across all users on one PC
but have not been able to. I have been able to send them to the
desired host but the color and other terminal setting are not also
pushed. Is there a way to do this?

http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.61/htmldoc/Chapter4.html#config-file
and then running the resulting file on the other system works for me.
(I can't say about color, as I think I'm using the default colors.)

To amplify a little, on Windows, Putty stores settings in the Registry -
including color and other terminal settings.

Because they are in the registry, they can be user-specific. You may
need to export the relevant part of the registry and import it for each
user so that Windows saves it as part of the user's profile.

I don't fully† understand Windows profiles but in Windows-domains, users
often have roaming profiles stored individually on the Windows domain
server and so probably need changes to be applied individually.
Doubtless MS have domain-admin tools for pushing sets of registry
changes to groups of users.



† Understatement :-)

[Cindy Ross]

Post by RedGrittyBrick

Post by Cindy Ross
http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.61/htmldoc/Chapter4.html#config-file
and then running the resulting file on the other system works for me.
(I can't say about color, as I think I'm using the default colors.)

To amplify a little, on Windows, Putty stores settings in the Registry -
including color and other terminal settings.
Because they are in the registry, they can be user-specific. You may
need to export the relevant part of the registry and import it for each
user so that Windows saves it as part of the user's profile.
I don't fully† understand Windows profiles but in Windows-domains, users
often have roaming profiles stored individually on the Windows domain
server and so probably need changes to be applied individually.
Doubtless MS have domain-admin tools for pushing sets of registry
changes to groups of users.
† Understatement :-)

Ah, good to know, thanks RGB, for posting these details. (My systems
are still XP, with me as Administrator, so simpler for me right now, but
I won't be on XP forever of course, so I'll want to hang on to this...)