NAME
plink - PuTTY link, command line network connection tool
SYNOPSIS
plink [options] [user@]host [command]
DESCRIPTION
plink is a network connection tool supporting several protocols.
OPTIONS
The command-line options supported by plink are:
-V Show version information and exit.
-pgpfp Display the fingerprints of the PuTTY PGP Master Keys and exit,
to aid in verifying new files released by the PuTTY team.
-v Show verbose messages.
-load session
Load settings from saved session.
-ssh Force use of SSH protocol (default).
-telnet
Force use of Telnet protocol.
-rlogin
Force use of rlogin protocol.
-raw Force raw mode.
-serial
Force serial mode.
-P port
Connect to port port.
-l user
Set remote username to user.
-m path
Read remote command(s) from local file path.
-batch Disable interactive prompts.
-pw password
Set remote password to password. CAUTION: this will likely make
the password visible to other users of the local machine (via
commands such as ‘w’).
-L [srcaddr:]srcport:desthost:destport
Set up a local port forwarding: listen on srcport (or
srcaddr:srcport if specified), and forward any connections over
the SSH connection to the destination address desthost:destport.
Only works in SSH.
-R [srcaddr:]srcport:desthost:destport
Set up a remote port forwarding: ask the SSH server to listen on
srcport (or srcaddr:srcport if specified), and to forward any
connections back over the SSH connection where the client will
pass them on to the destination address desthost:destport. Only
works in SSH.
-D [srcaddr:]srcport
Set up dynamic port forwarding. The client listens on srcport
(or srcaddr:srcport if specified), and implements a SOCKS
server. So you can point SOCKS-aware applications at this port
and they will automatically use the SSH connection to tunnel all
their connections. Only works in SSH.
-X Enable X11 forwarding.
-x Disable X11 forwarding (default).
-A Enable agent forwarding.
-a Disable agent forwarding (default).
-t Enable pty allocation (default if a command is NOT specified).
-T Disable pty allocation (default if a command is specified).
-1 Force use of SSH protocol version 1.
-2 Force use of SSH protocol version 2.
-C Enable SSH compression.
-i path
Private key file for authentication.
-s Remote command is SSH subsystem (SSH-2 only).
-N Don’t start a remote command or shell at all (SSH-2 only).
-sercfg configuration-string
Specify the configuration parameters for the serial port, in
-serial mode. configuration-string should be a comma-separated
list of configuration parameters as follows:
· Any single digit from 5 to 9 sets the number of data
bits.
· ‘1’, ‘1.5’ or ‘2’ sets the number of stop bits.
· Any other numeric string is interpreted as a baud rate.
· A single lower-case letter specifies the parity: ‘n’ for
none, ‘o’ for odd, ‘e’ for even, ‘m’ for mark and ‘s’ for
space.
· A single upper-case letter specifies the flow control:
‘N’ for none, ‘X’ for XON/XOFF, ‘R’ for RTS/CTS and ‘D’
for DSR/DTR.
MORE INFORMATION
For more information on plink, it’s probably best to go and look at the
manual on the PuTTY web page:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
BUGS
This man page isn’t terribly complete. See the above web link for
better documentation.