PuTTY is a terminal emulator (able to run shells, which in turn run commands), while the usual SSH application is a shell (not a terminal emulator). PuTTY has been ported to Unix (and Unix-like) systems as pterm . scp is a special case: a program use for copying a few files via an ssh connection.

Is PuTTY a Linux?

PuTTY for Linux

This page is about PuTTY on Linux. For the Windows version, see here. … PuTTY Linux vesion is a graphical terminal program that supports the SSH, telnet, and rlogin protocols and connecting to serial ports. It can also connect to raw sockets, typically for debugging use.

Is PuTTY same as SSH?

PuTTY is an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform. PuTTY is open source software that is available with source code and is developed and supported by a group of volunteers.