How to do Chat using Putty

Runnig UNIX is always a fun. It always excite us to explore the depth of it. An OS that make us to explore our thinking.

As said by Dennis Ritchie. " UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. "

UNIX is the most used system for networks. Server of UNIX can run for many years without crash. And to control these various servers Network Administrator use ssh simply known as Secure Shell.

As our previous post about putty that is also used to get remotely access to UNIX server through ssh. But it seems to be quite boring sometime.

We can send message through putty. But limitation of sending a message through putty is that user should have to be on the same network.

How to know about user in same network using putty? Simply use following command:

[username@Linux-Svr ~ ]$: who (this will list all the available user)

$who
root     :0           May  7 03:51
root     pts/1        May  7 03:51 (:0.0)
root     pts/2        May  7 03:51 (:0.0)
user5    pts/10       May  7 04:17 (dhcp-dwf1-4-10-176-162-74)
user8    pts/13       May  7 04:12 (dhcp-dwf1-4-10-176-162-180)
user9    pts/15       May  7 04:12 (10.176.146.212)
user7    pts/14       May  7 04:23 (dhcp-dwf1-4-10-176-162-118)
user12   pts/18       May  7 04:14 (dhcp-dwf1-4-10-176-162-119)
user11   pts/23       May  7 04:14 (dhcp-dwf1-4-10-176-162-31)
user1    pts/22       May  7 04:27 (dhcp-dwf1-4-10-176-162-125)
user15   pts/24       May  7 04:14 (dhcp-dwf1-4-10-176-162-65)
user6    pts/12       May  7 04:14 (dhcp-dwf1-4-10-176-162-120)
user2    pts/28       May  7 04:14 (dhcp-dwf1-4-10-176-162-60)
user7    pts/30       May  7 04:14 (dhcp-dwf1-4-10-176-162-118)
user4    pts/31       May  7 04:14 (dhcp-dwf1-4-10-176-162-72)
user10   pts/32       May  7 04:14 (dhcp-dwf1-4-10-176-162-68)
user14   pts/33       May  7 04:14 (dhcp-dwf1-4-10-176-162-27)

Now pick up one user whom you want to send message and then execute this command: