On 2/12/08, Charles Jones <charles.jones@ciscolearning.org> wrote:
  

Joshua Zeidner wrote:
    

  why would you want to use putty on Linux?  just use the standard
command line SSH.

  putty is useful on Win32 though.

      

I've used it before because putty can ssh through a SOCKS proxy
connection, and the standard ssh cannot.
    

 Charles,

 the fruit of a 2 minute google search:

  http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2004/11/22/ssh_socks/

 and yes "I'm Feeling Lucky!" :)

  -jmz