Importing PuTTY sessions

[Draghmar]

Description of the new feature/enhancement

I wonder if there's a chance for (or a way if it is there and I can't simply find it ;)) making import and later sync for PuTTY sessions. I do know that PuTTY can't be used inside Terminal but it would be great if we could simply import and manage sessions instead of making all the entries.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

There are tools that wraps putty (like SuperPuTTY for example) and they have a way to import sessions by opening window for that.
What I'd like to get is to have new option when adding new profile. That could be a button that would open window with a list of PuTTY sessions where I could choose which one I'd like to import as a Terminal profiles.
As a bonus feature it would be great to have checkbox for syncing all the profiles so if I'll get a new one in putty it will show up in Terminal as well.
Cherry on top would be to have auto sync for all the imported profiles to stay up to date with Putty but at least manual sync would be enough.

Is that even possible to achieve?

[synner88]

Putty sessions are stored at HKCU\SOFTWARE\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions.
From there you can extract protocol, username, hostname, portnumber but many of the values are protocol-specific (e.g. PublicKeyFile).
Most importantly, you need to map protocol to a specific command/tool for Terminal to call (with a specific argument list).

[WSLUser]

You could try creating a profile that calls putty.exe and if putty allows commandline parameters for choosing a particular saved session config, you could add that at the end. Otherwise, I'd suggest creating a profile using ssh.exe from Win32-OpenSSH and define the username@hostname there.

[KalleOlaviNiemitalo]

A Windows Terminal profile that calls putty.exe would be inconvenient to use because PuTTY opens its own window instead of using the console.

[Draghmar]

My suggestion was more on how to make it easier to import into Terminal. I know how can I do this manually (it's even in FAQ :P) but it would be so much more convenient if there was built-in tool for that (especially for lazy people like me ;)). And one of the reasons for that is the fact that you can't use putty.exe inside Terminal because it will open new window, as @KalleOlaviNiemitalo also pointed out.

[zadjii-msft]

This is a fun idea for a dynamic profile generator. Thanks!

[DHowett]

Notes for someone who may be interested in working on it: putty ships a command-line SSH client of its own, plink, which is aware of putty profiles. That may be even easier than trying to gin up a ssh.exe command line.