For some purposes it may be useful to operate the Tectia SSH Terminal GUI from the command line (command prompt).
The command-line syntax for the Tectia SSH Terminal GUI
(ssh-client-g3.exe
) is as follows:
ssh-client-g3 [-r] [-p port] [-u user] [-h host] [profile]
The command-line parameters have the following meanings:
-r
The -r
option will reset all customizations made to the user
interface (toolbars and menus). A confirmation dialog is displayed.
-p [port_number]
The -p
option specifies the port number used for the
connection. If this option is not specified, the port number defined in
the default profile is used.
-u [user_name]
The -u
option specifies the user name for the
connection. If this option is not specified, the user name defined in the
default profile is used.
-h [host_name]
The -h
option specifies the hostname for the
connection. If this option is not specified, the hostname defined in the
default profile is used.
[profile]
If a profile is specified, it must be the last option on the command line. Any command-line parameters override the profile settings. If no profile is specified, the default profile is used.
-f
The -f
(or /f
) option starts the
default SFTP file transfer profile.
For example, the following command would immediately start a
connection to a host called remotehost
and connect as
guest
. The port number is not specified, so the connection
would use the port specified in the default profile.
ssh-client-g3 -h remotehost -u guest
The following command would immediately start a connection to
remotehost
using the settings defined in the profile file
custom.ssh2
.
ssh-client-g3 -h remotehost custom.ssh2
If the host is not specified (using the -h
option) and
no profile is specified, the login dialog opens, automatically filled with
the values specified on the command line.
For example, the following command would display the login dialog
with the port number already defined as 222 and guest
as the
user name.
ssh-client-g3 -u guest -p 222
A command-line client sshg3.exe
is also included in
Tectia ConnectSecure for Windows. It can be useful especially for creating scripts.
For a description of the sshg3.exe
syntax, see
sshg3(1).
Also several other command-line utilities are included in the Tectia ConnectSecure installation. For more information, see Appendix C.