(Q) How do I copy and paste into the sessions window (A) Use Command+V keyboard combination (the equivalent to CTRL+V) on macOS. (Q) It is not possible to paste a target host address into a new connection. (A) In Mac, Putty has additional options in Terminal Keyboard. (Q) I cannot enter the “#” character, the key combination is Alt-3 on macOS Sierra. (A) YES! please see this post about PuTTY running on OS X 10.10 and this post about PuTTY running on 10.13 High Sierra.
(Q) Can I install and run Putty on OSX 10.8.x 10.9.x and 10.10.x ? I know it is not optimal and hopefully we will be able to support resizing sometime in the future.
What you can do is create another session for your application and set a custom Window size for it by changing the Columns and Rows and then save that for future usage of that application. (A) Unfortunately at this time, Putty for Mac does not support resizing an established connection. (Q) How do I expand the Putty window it is very small by default? (Q) Can I install Putty on OSX 10.12 Sierra? (Q) I get this error when installing ( Error : LaunchServices: Could not store lsd-identifiers file at /private/var/db/lsd/ ) is this a Putty error / bug? Please see the FAQ entry about running Putty on OSX 10.8, 10.9 and 10.10 below. Official Versions of Putty are available on Unix like Platforms, and now it’s widely available for Mac systems running OSX 10.11 or higher.
In Windows it is used as SSH Client to connect to Your Linux server or for some other purpose But what will you do if you are on Mac? You might be thinking, Is there any Software like Putty for Mac Available? The answer is Yes! With the help of some other Software’s we can Use putty on Mac although Putty is used widely on Windows Platform. It Supports different types of Network Protocols such as SSH, FTP, SCP, Telnet etc.
(A) Putty is one of the Best Terminal Emulators available today. Here is our current FAQ for “Putty for Mac” it should help answer the most common questions and support request. By using and installing the PuTTY on your Mac or OS X is extremely easy.
The Mac OS has various options for the SSH client, and here we offer some methods to use SSH on your Mac PC. The PuTTY for Mac app is the port of the Windows version of Putty.
In the Windows OS, PuTTY Portable is used as SSH Client to connect your Linux server. SSH is available by default on Mac, Linux, or Unix. Official versions of Putty are available on Unix-like platforms, and now it's widely available for Mac systems running OS X 10.11 or later. With the help of some other applications, we can use putty on Mac, although Putty is used widely on Windows platform. So the most popular and widely recommended solution for connecting to SSH servers is an open source, third-party application called PuTTY. Microsoft made some noise about integrating an official SSH client into PowerShell back in 2015, but we haven’t heard much about it since. Windows still doesn’t offer a built-in SSH command. PuTTY, under the hood, uses the exact same OpenSSH libraries to connect as ssh on OS X. files to your Windows machine and import them in to PuTTY for authentication to the server. PuTTY also supports public/private key authorization like this FWIW.