Putty - automatically login to root account with MTPuTTY when login to root account is not permitted by SSH server

In this article, we would like to show you how to automatically login to a root account via SSH when such login operation is disabled for security reasons. The article shows how to configure a login operation with MTPuTTY.

Simple steps:

1. click Server -> Add server...,
2. set Connection parameters tab:

   Server name:      my-server.com
   Protocol:         SSH
   Display name:     root@my-server.com
   User name:        my_user_name
   Password:         my_secret_user_password

   You can set last properties as you feel, e.g.:

   Password in command line (SSH only):                     unchecked
   Wait period before typing password (in milliseconds):    1000

3. go to Script tab and paste following code:

   ###_SLEEP:1000
   su -l root
   ###_SLEEP:1000
   my_secret_root_password

   Where: 400 can be replaced by any time of waiting for next operation in milliseconds.

4. click Ok button,
5. check if you are able to login as root now.

Steps: 2 and 3 on screenshots: