From 8c534c26fd8a8396a5386b416a74d557667357cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jacob Nevins Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 19:43:26 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Docs: note "wrong host key" warning is stronger. To try to prime readers learning the often-seen "unknown host key" warning to recognise the rarer and scarier "wrong host key" warning, if they see it. --- doc/gs.but | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/gs.but b/doc/gs.but index 4eff8967..8b915dbf 100644 --- a/doc/gs.but +++ b/doc/gs.but @@ -80,10 +80,10 @@ PuTTY \I{host key cache}records the host key for each server you connect to, in the Windows \i{Registry}. Every time you connect to a server, it checks that the host key presented by the server is the same host key as it was the last time you connected. If it is not, -you will see a warning, and you will have the chance to abandon your -connection before you type any private information (such as a -password) into it. (See \k{errors-hostkey-wrong} for what that looks -like.) +you will see a stronger warning, and you will have the chance to +abandon your connection before you type any private information (such +as a password) into it. (See \k{errors-hostkey-wrong} for what that +looks like.) However, when you connect to a server you have not connected to before, PuTTY has no way of telling whether the host key is the