

It is used for securely transferring files between systems on an SSH connection. This terminal emulator can ship with a terminal tool which is called "psftp" (an SFTP client of Putty). Generally, sysadmins use Putty as a client of telnet and SSH whereas the community of makers uses Putty to interact with many serial ports over their hardware. It is used via hobbyists/maker-crowd and seasoned sysadmins alike. Putty provides its support for a huge protocol range such as SFTP, SCP, rlogin, Telnet, SSH, serial, etc. Being open-source and free, it is famous among many users of Linux as well.

However, it is not just restricted to Windows OS.

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