automated putty script

[keydrive]

Hi,

I created a simple automated putty script in Windows to launch and access my Linux boxes. The options are simple to pass; host, uid and password. Is there a way switch to another user from the putty.exe command line?

cd C:\PuTTY
start putty.exe -load "hostname" -uid XXXX -pw XXXXX
 

I would rather configure putty and use putty.exe then use pline.exe and create all the connection information again.

Thanks for your suggestions

[sicarie]

I'm not sure I understand your question, are you trying to switch users on a Linux system? You would do that with the 'su' command.

Or are you trying to do something else?

[keydrive]

Yes, I'm familar with switching to another user with su. What I'm looking for is to include this in my automated launch of an xterm window through putty.exe on the command line.
It would be great if putty had an option like this;

start putty.exe -load "hostname" -uid XXXX -pw XXXXX -command "su - second_user"
 

Thanks,