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Teraterm Tips

• The right site to download the latest version of  Teraterm is Japanese SourceForge site:  Teraterm Open Source Project  or LogmeTT site (logmett.com). The latter is probably is more convenient for US users. During installation you should generally avoid selecting Connect component (which provides tabs) as it does not work well.
• Many older and obsolete versions are still available on various sites and are displayed prominently Google (the first and the third site in Google search "teraterm" should be ignored):
  • Please avoid downloading software package from the original site Tera Term Home Page 
  • Please avoid downloading  a version 3.1.3 called Teraterm Pro Web  from Ayera Technologies  (http://www.ayera.com/teraterm/).  This package ( ttpro313.zip) is an abandonware created October 8, 2002 and never updated since then.
• Authentication notes. There is a difference between SSH authenticating using "passphrase" (the default method of authentication in Teraterm distribution) and Challenge/response (keyboard interactive). Most SSH servers refuse passphrase authentication. To enable it you need to change in y0ou /etc/ssh/sshd_config file (or equivalent) the following setting

  # To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here!
  PasswordAuthentication yes
  #PermitEmptyPasswords no

  You can change the default method via Setup/SSH authentication and then selection "use chanllenge/response to log in..."  (or chache DefaultAuthMethod=3 to DefaultAuthMethod=5 in teraterm.ini file)

  That makes Teraterm behavior compatible with Putty where this authentication method is a default.
   

• With a special setting (Setup -> Additional Settings -> Copy & Paste ->DisableMouseRButtonPaste) version 4.58 (but not 4.62) understands Unix-style middle mouse button paste operation.