Although it looks and acts the same as Telnet, all communications over the SSH protocol is encrypted to prevent packet sniffing.

You can open up a terminal window and run the ssh command like below to connect to a remote Linux server.

It finally arrived in Windows 10s Fall Creator Update in 2017 and is enabled by default in the April 2018 Update.

The first time you connect to a Linux computer, you will be prompted to accept the host key.

After login, you can run Linux commands to do administrative tasks.

To change it, right-click the titlebar and select properties, then you can change the font size, and the background color.

WSL is created for web developers or those who need to work on open-source projects.

You can use not only SSH but also other Linux command line tools (Bash, sed, awk, etc).

Select Run Linux on Windows and install a Linux distro of your choice.

Tick on the checkbox of Windows Subsystem for Linux to enable this feature.

You may need to reboot your Windows PC for this change to take effect.).

The first time you launch it, you need to create a user and set a password.

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To use SSH with Putty, you need to download the Putty program from the official website and install it.

Then enter the IP address or hostname of the Linux box and click the Open button to connect to it.

To paste text into Putty, first press CtrlC to copy the text, then go to Putty window and press the right-button of your mouse.

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I see from the two screenshots that you also changed the text color (all text is now white, including the linux path that is otherwise hard to read).

Were you able to do this in the powershell (client side; how) or did you have to change settings on the server.

The color of the command prompt is controlled by the server.

The Linux version of ssh is included and accessible via bash.

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