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Jacob Nevins
07391f0f36 Mention saving mid-session and some of its wrinkles.
Formatting tweaks in the same general area.

[originally from svn r5284]
2005-02-10 01:25:50 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
339242c9bb Document effect of settings changes on existing connections/forwardings.
Also mention that service names can be used instead of port numbers.

[originally from svn r5283]
2005-02-10 01:04:06 +00:00
Ben Harris
e12b2dcb71 Split discussion of diabling rekeys between time-based and data-based, since
disabling the former is much more useful, and much safer, than disabling the
latter.  The new wording on data-based rekeys might need some polishing.

[originally from svn r5222]
2005-01-28 13:47:37 +00:00
Ben Harris
95368801d3 Versions of OpenSSH before 2.5.4 kill the connection if the client attempts
to rekey.  Extend the description of SSH2_BUG_REKEY to cover this situation
and apply it to the relevant OpenSSH versions.

[originally from svn r5097]
2005-01-11 16:33:08 +00:00
Simon Tatham
e7b53c3ad5 Servers announcing themselves as `Sun_SSH_1.0' apparently cannot
deal with rekeys at all: they totally ignore mid-session KEXINIT
sent by the client. Hence, a new bug entry so we don't try it.

[originally from svn r5092]
2005-01-11 10:37:55 +00:00
Simon Tatham
c57e9f0672 For local and dynamic port forwardings (i.e. the ones which listen
on a local port), the `Auto' protocol option on the Tunnels panel
should always produce a port you can connect to in _either_ of IPv4
and v6, because the aim is for the user not to have to know or care
which one they're using. This was not the case on Windows, and now
is. Also, updated the docs to give more detail on issues like this.

[originally from svn r5083]
2005-01-08 14:45:26 +00:00
Simon Tatham
6daf6faede Integrate unfix.org's IPv6 patches up to level 10, with rather a lot
of polishing to bring them to what I think should in principle be
release quality. Unlike the unfix.org patches themselves, this
checkin enables IPv6 by default; if you want to leave it out, you
have to build with COMPAT=-DNO_IPV6.

I have tested that this compiles on Visual C 7 (so the nightlies
_should_ acquire IPv6 support without missing a beat), but since I
don't have IPv6 set up myself I haven't actually tested that it
_works_. It still seems to make correct IPv4 connections, but that's
all I've been able to verify for myself. Further testing is needed.

[originally from svn r5047]
[this svn revision also touched putty-wishlist]
2004-12-30 16:45:11 +00:00
Simon Tatham
49204fe410 Add some discussion of rekeys-as-keepalives, and their potential
adverse effect on the life expectancy of a low-use connection over a
low-reliability network.

[originally from svn r5041]
2004-12-29 13:44:20 +00:00
Simon Tatham
81df0d4253 SSH port forwarding is now configurable in mid-session. After doing
Change Settings, the port forwarding setup function is run again,
and tags all existing port forwardings as `do not keep'. Then it
iterates through the config in the normal way; when it encounters a
port forwarding which is already in the tree, it tags it `keep'
rather than setting it up from scratch. Finally, it goes through the
tree and removes any that haven't been labelled `keep'. Hence,
editing the list of forwardings in Change Settings has the effect of
cancelling any forwardings you remove, and adding any new ones.

The SSH panel now appears in the reconfig box, and is empty apart
from a message explaining that it has to be there for subpanels of
it to exist. Better wording for this message would be welcome.

[originally from svn r5030]
2004-12-28 14:07:05 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
30896d650e Basic configurability for client-initiated rekeys.
[originally from svn r5027]
2004-12-24 13:39:32 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
3c98d6e60d Add a preference list for SSH-2 key exchange algorithms, on a new "Kex" panel
(which will gain more content anon).

Retire BUG_SSH2_DH_GEX and add a backwards-compatibility wart, since we never
did find a way of automatically detecting this alleged server bug, and in any
case there was only ever one report (<3D91F3B5.7030309@inwind.it>, FWIW).

Also generalise askcipher() to a new askalg() (thus touching all the
front-ends).

I've made some attempt to document what SSH key exchange is and why you care,
but it could use some review for clarity (and outright lies).

[originally from svn r5022]
2004-12-23 02:24:07 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
a2e01a5604 Abe Crabtree complains that flushing the log file as often as we do in 0.56
results in unacceptable performance for him on Win2000. Add a checkbox to
revert to the old behaviour.

[originally from svn r4988]
[this svn revision also touched putty-wishlist]
2004-12-16 15:22:36 +00:00
Simon Tatham
f237e23aff Some blurb about terminal types and 256-colour xterms. Thanks to Dan
Nicolaescu for the suggestion.

[originally from svn r4925]
2004-11-29 11:31:21 +00:00
Simon Tatham
e4e10e494b Implement xterm 256-colour mode.
[originally from svn r4917]
[this svn revision also touched putty-wishlist]
2004-11-28 15:13:34 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
6ed54bca89 "Connection reset by peer" is apparently not the only error that keepalives can
help with.

[originally from svn r4819]
2004-11-18 19:44:26 +00:00
Simon Tatham
5d32d4af14 Now we use Subversion, it seems excessive to have an individual $Id$
line for every single .but file at the bottom of each page of the
HTML PuTTY docs. However, we can't _always_ replace that with a
single SVN revision, because there isn't always one available (SVN
still allows mixed working copies in which some files are
deliberately checked out against a different revision).

Hence, here's a mechanism for doing better. It uses `svnversion .'
to determine _whether_ a single revision number adequately describes
the current directory, and replaces all the version IDs with that if
so. If it can't do that, it uses the version IDs as before.

Also, this allows an explicit version string to be passed on the
make command line which will override _both_ these possibilities, so
that release documentation can be clearly labelled with the release
version number.

[originally from svn r4804]
2004-11-17 18:16:59 +00:00
Simon Tatham
814408f2d3 DJSD requests a force-monochrome option for users who dislike angry-
fruit-salad applications :-)

[originally from svn r4762]
2004-11-09 17:57:32 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
599b0351e6 Random tweaks:
- change click-by-click advice on modifying saved sessions
 - add `Restart Session' as another reason you might not want to close the
   window on exit; other tweaks to this language
 - mention Shift-Backspace action
 - the window resizing configuration documentation was completely out of
   date; rewrite
 - add a note about Default Bold Background since it's caused confusion
 - "remote terminal" -> "remote system" in terminal-type doc

[originally from svn r4686]
2004-10-24 18:26:00 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
83e15f8082 Munge line-drawing description to match current naming and order of options
(in the Windows version), and hopefully to clarify distinction between line
charset and local font, which has occasionally foxed me.

Cross-reference the Translation panel reference section from the intro
section in using.but and mention line-drawing characters there also.

[originally from svn r4654]
2004-10-19 13:54:50 +00:00
Simon Tatham
859d92a577 Moved the environment variables config block out of the Telnet panel
into the Connection panel, and implemented support for the SSH2
"env" request. (I haven't yet found a server which accepts this
request, so although I've visually checked the packet log and it
looks OK, I haven't yet been able to do a full end-to-end test.)
Also, the `pty' backend reads this data and does a series of
`putenv' commands before launching the shell or application.

This is mostly because in last week's UTF-8 faffings I got
thoroughly sick of typing `export LANG=en_GB.UTF-8' every time I
started a new testing pterm, and it suddenly occurred to me that
this would be precisely the sort of thing you'd want to have pterm
set up for you, particularly since you can configure it alongside
the translation settings and so you can ensure they match up
properly.

[originally from svn r4645]
2004-10-16 10:56:54 +00:00
Simon Tatham
dd279dffc2 Implement part of `ssh2-generality': introduce the ability to tell
PuTTY / Plink not to run a remote shell/command at all. Supported in
the GUI configuration and via the (OpenSSH-like) -N command-line
option.

No effort is currently made to arrange `nice' UI properties. If you
do this in GUI PuTTY, a full-size terminal window will still be
created, and will sit there with almost nothing in it throughout
your session. If you do it in Plink, Plink will not accept any kind
of request to terminate gracefully; you'll have to ^C or kill it.
Nonetheless, even this little will be useful to some people...

[originally from svn r4614]
2004-10-13 13:43:11 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
98028c746f X forwarding changes:
- new function platform_get_x_display() to find a sensible local display.
   On Unix, the Gtk apps weren't taking account of --display when
   determining where to send forwarded X traffic.
 - explicitly document that leaving X display location blank in config tries
   to do something sensible (and that it's now blank by default)
 - don't override X11Display setting in plink, since that's more properly
   done later

[originally from svn r4604]
2004-10-06 22:31:07 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
e375ba107d `ssh-log-pw-blank': known password fields are now omitted from SSH packet logs
by default (although they can be included). There's also an option to remove
session data, which is good both for privacy and for reducing the size of
logfiles.

[originally from svn r4593]
2004-10-02 00:33:27 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
6f83b757e9 Document telnet_keyboard more completely, cross-reference from "Special
Commands" section, and tweak option description in code.

[originally from svn r4572]
2004-09-22 22:15:25 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
e574e3711e Make it a bit easier to find our explanation of `raw' mode.
[originally from svn r4547]
2004-09-17 14:26:39 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
065c303a29 Bleh, grammar.
[originally from svn r4523]
2004-09-01 10:19:22 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
b7d834f61c Documentation existence of SOCKS5 CHAP authentication.
[originally from svn r4522]
2004-09-01 10:12:41 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
131976fe93 Mention bps units of terminal speeds (FWLIW).
[originally from svn r4344]
2004-07-22 11:18:08 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
2c0e9b859b grammer
[originally from svn r4312]
2004-06-27 11:04:39 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
20f433efac Add a configuration option for TCP keepalives (SO_KEEPALIVE), default off.
No very good reason, but I've occasionally wanted to frob it to see if it
makes any difference to problems I'm having, and it was easy.

Tested that it does actually cause keepalives on Windows (with tcpdump);
should also work on Unix. Not implemented on Mac (does nothing), but then
neither is TCP_NODELAY.

Quite a big checkin, much of which is adding `keepalive' alongside `nodelay'
in network function calls.

[originally from svn r4309]
2004-06-20 17:07:38 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
6bcac21e36 hide scrollbar - you can use more than just Shift+PgUp/Dn to scroll now.
[originally from svn r4286]
2004-06-15 11:31:30 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
5c2471809c Mention "beep using the PC speaker" on general principles (although there isn't
much to say about it).

[originally from svn r4285]
2004-06-15 11:11:19 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
14eeb3b664 Explain that the configurable window title is only an initial setting.
[originally from svn r4274]
2004-06-10 10:01:11 +00:00
Simon Tatham
f5a7d348cd Halibut now warns about code paragraph lines which are too long to
fit in the text output format. If only to stop myself getting
pestered with cron stderr messages every night, here are some
changes that remove over-long code lines from the PuTTY manual.

[originally from svn r4238]
2004-05-22 11:09:31 +00:00
Simon Tatham
6ead462bfa Fix Halibut syntax errors in the new shaping/bidi doc sections.
[originally from svn r4237]
2004-05-22 11:04:35 +00:00
Simon Tatham
fb7dd5a255 At last! After much delay, much faffing back and forth, and much
enhancement and fiddling, I have now massaged Arabeyes' first patch
into a form I'm happy to check in. Phew.

[originally from svn r4236]
2004-05-22 10:36:50 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
3867e5956e In SSH, we now send terminal speeds to the server when requesting a pty
(we didn't before) - `ssh-termspeed'.
In the process, I've removed the individual controls on the Telnet and
Rlogin panels and replaced them with one on the Connection panel (since they
were backed by the same storage anyway).
The terminal speeds sent in SSH are logged in the Event Log.

[originally from svn r4133]
2004-04-24 20:05:03 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
1c1cbae61c Finally correct REGEDIT syntax for "saving in a file" hack.
(verified on Win2K)

[originally from svn r3922]
2004-03-05 19:01:45 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
1dd4521671 Mention that proxy password is saved in plain text in configuration, since
we've had a couple of indignant e-mails.

[originally from svn r3916]
2004-03-01 18:17:34 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
441231814b Document the new "Compromise" mouse-handling option introduced 2003-11-20
[originally from svn r3829]
2004-02-07 23:49:21 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
352ec6a486 `portfwd-loopback-choice' was not consistently documented.
- update usage info in tools
   - ack, plink is over 24 lines now
 - update man pages for Unix version
 - Doc changes:
   - move long description from (GUI) "config" to "using"
     - sorry if complete specification isn't what this section is meant for,
       but if you only read "using" it was hard to find.
   - ensure enough references to this made in other sections (GUI,
     command-line)
   - update instance of plink usage info

[originally from svn r3740]
2004-01-20 12:46:36 +00:00
Simon Tatham
5ff8c668e4 Move the `translation of line drawing characters when pasting'
option from the Selection panel to the Translation panel (where it
fits at least as well). This frees a line in the Selection panel
which I'm about to use for an additional mouse handling option.

[originally from svn r3564]
2003-11-20 18:33:22 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
c8a6df1e1c missed a bit in last commit
[originally from svn r3490]
2003-10-08 21:39:54 +00:00
Owen Dunn
a03d04ba75 Cosmetic, to fix ssh2-des-cbc-is-std
[originally from svn r3488]
2003-10-08 20:09:55 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
e3018a08e8 Clarify what happens when you enter a code page that's not listed.
[originally from svn r3467]
2003-09-26 13:04:56 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
3250a5b0f0 Note what versions of SOCKS are implemented for dynamic port forwarding.
[originally from svn r3464]
2003-09-25 12:38:02 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
95d5a91c24 Implement `default-colours' on Windows based loosely on Michael Wardle's patch.
[originally from svn r3444]
2003-09-03 20:14:38 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
5161740aab Incorporate Brad Clarke's suggestion to use "REGEDIT /EA" rather than
"REGEDIT /E". On newer versions of Windows (verified on 2K), this will cause
the .REG file to be saved in REGEDIT4 format (ASCII) which can be read by
older Windows, rather than REGEDIT5 (Unicode). On older Windows, the extra "A"
is harmless (verified on Win98).

[originally from svn r3305]
2003-06-25 15:52:29 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
91061abf04 The specific SSH cipher algorithms supported by PuTTY weren't listed anywhere
in the documentation.
Added some detail - feel free to tweak.

[originally from svn r3284]
2003-06-21 20:21:29 +00:00
Simon Tatham
8460ecd27d Yesterday's proxy enhancements also slightly nadgered the config
box, in that it started to expand under the weight of proxy options.
Now fixed, by folding the SOCKS version selector into the general
proxy type selector so there's one single 5- or 6-way radio button
set split over two lines. settings.c has of course grown a backwards
compatibility wart to deal with legacy config data.

[originally from svn r3168]
2003-05-07 12:07:23 +00:00