A picture of the screen that I am stuck at:

Operating System: Windows 7

Port: 27880

I have been setting up SSH in PuTTY to make my wiki family work, and I have experienced some problems typing the password. The command line's login is working this time, but I am currently unable to type in the password. When I try to type the password, the characters do not appear and the screen remains blank.

I talked about a previous problem with my web host's staff before the command line started working. They suggested that I had the wrong version of PuTTY. However, since the login popped up this time, I believe something else may be causing a problem. I am now looking for suggestions and solutions to get around this problem. Any suggestions?

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Unlike Windows systems, Linux and Unix systems will not display * or any other character to indicate that you've entered something/anything in a password field - it simply stays totally blank. Cursor won't blink, move, etc.

The password you are being prompted for is not the user account's password, but rather the password associated wtih the public/private key pair that you are attempting to use for authentication.

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ok, I went through the same thing. when copying the password do not right-click instead use the command shift + insert

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