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Author SHA1 Message Date
Simon Tatham
9e4d795787 Add text to the troubleshooting chapter about the errors that can be
caused when an active connection times out due to outgoing data
exceeding its maximum number of retries, and mention that this can
occur even when you didn't think you'd sent anything due to rekeys
and/or keepalives.

Unix generates ETIMEDOUT in this situation. Windows, it turns out
after doing an actual experiment by disabling my firewall, generates
ECONNABORTED! So _that's_ what it means under Windows. I wish I'd
done this experiment years ago now.

[originally from svn r5585]
2005-03-31 18:52:21 +00:00
Simon Tatham
9e0ae020d5 FAQ entry on rekeys: Jacob would like to pre-emptively try to avoid
the possibility of people falling back to SSH-1 just because it gets
rid of the irritating delays.

[originally from svn r5584]
2005-03-31 13:45:41 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
fd6e335af9 faq-timeout: update for XP
[originally from svn r5565]
2005-03-30 10:20:31 +00:00
Simon Tatham
a34ab9bfc9 Small markup fixes I just noticed, mostly use of literal double
quotes where \q{} would be better.

[originally from svn r5562]
2005-03-29 14:24:14 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
2daa1b737c In fact, I'll document the wrinkle with "plink -load", rather than just
wittering about it on a mailing list.

[originally from svn r5550]
2005-03-24 02:22:21 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
2d379524c3 Since Markus Kuhn no longer explicitly places wcwidth.c in the public domain,
it'd probably be generous to list him in the copyrights.

[originally from svn r5548]
[this svn revision also touched putty-website]
2005-03-23 20:23:07 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
faf59c78be Add an option to use wcwidth_cjk() instead of wcwidth(), as several people
have asked for it.

[originally from svn r5542]
2005-03-22 23:20:23 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
dcc4ffbd34 Mention PUTTY.RND by name
[originally from svn r5538]
2005-03-21 17:43:59 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
cacf8fcc3d More compact display for the key links/fingerprints. Still not ideal, but
it'll probably do.

[originally from svn r5526]
2005-03-19 03:05:44 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
36fc6c0a76 Try to make our PGP signing more useful:
* All the PuTTY tools for Windows and Unix now contain the fingerprints of
   the Master Keys. The method for accessing them is crude but universal:
   a new "-pgpfp" command-line option. (Except Unix PuTTYgen, which takes
   "--pgpfp" just to be awkward.)

 * Move the key policy discussion from putty-website/keys.html to
   putty/doc/pgpkeys.but, and autogenerate the former from the latter.
   Also tweak the text somewhat and include the fingerprints of the
   Master Keys themselves.
   (I've merged the existing autogeneration scripts into a single new
   one; I've left the old scripts and keys.html around until such time
   as the webmonster reviews the changes and plumbs in the new script;
   he should remove the old files then.)

[originally from svn r5524]
[this svn revision also touched putty-website]
2005-03-19 02:26:58 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
5eb26fa459 I believe MAC/CRC errors can be caused by network corruption, in principle.
[originally from svn r5520]
2005-03-18 12:58:39 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
69209db8ea faq-savedsettings: mention Default Settings
[originally from svn r5514]
2005-03-16 16:09:44 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
e4a5884636 punctuation nit
[originally from svn r5495]
2005-03-11 21:05:12 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
1ddb28955c Make it clearer which protocol version various bugs apply to.
[originally from svn r5490]
2005-03-11 15:24:09 +00:00
Ben Harris
7726a0c49c Expand "v" to "version" when discussing SSH protocol versions.
[originally from svn r5486]
2005-03-10 17:08:37 +00:00
Ben Harris
d970e2fb5e When we're quoting user-interface text from PuTTY 0.51, we probably shouldn't
correct its spelling of "SSH-2".

[originally from svn r5485]
2005-03-10 17:08:00 +00:00
Ben Harris
6b9766a575 Fix an "SSH v1" that Jacob missed (because it spanned a line break).
[originally from svn r5484]
2005-03-10 17:06:29 +00:00
Ben Harris
6070903a09 Make it clear that even when using SSH 2, you only need the SSH-2 pubkey format
if you're actually using the SSH-2 protocol.

[originally from svn r5483]
2005-03-10 17:04:26 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
5aa719d16e Consistently use a single notation to refer to SSH protocol versions, as
discussed. Use Barrett and Silverman's convention of "SSH-1" for SSH protocol
version 1 and "SSH-2" for protocol 2 ("SSH1"/"SSH2" refer to ssh.com
implementations in this scheme). <http://www.snailbook.com/terms.html>

[originally from svn r5480]
2005-03-10 16:36:05 +00:00
Simon Tatham
dfccca7974 Support multiple anchor name types now that Jacob has enhanced
Halibut to be able to do so.

[originally from svn r5479]
2005-03-10 16:18:51 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
470bdd13ea Miscellaneous tweaks.
[originally from svn r5461]
2005-03-08 14:20:38 +00:00
Simon Tatham
89e5b32237 Charlie at work points out that the screen FAQ contains a different
- and probably better - solution to the screen-vs-alt-screen issue.
Reference it and describe the fix.

[originally from svn r5452]
2005-03-07 16:40:11 +00:00
Simon Tatham
b3d4ecd345 `What commands can I type into my PuTTY session' is probably the
single most frequently asked thing which isn't in the FAQ (it's in
feedback.but instead), so let's add it. I'm uncertain that the
people who mail us asking things like `how do I read my email' and
`how do I access $database' will successfully recognise this more
general question as one which includes their specific one, but it's
worth a try.

[originally from svn r5451]
2005-03-07 14:07:19 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
1e0aeea460 Mention `-cleanup' caveats on multi-user systems.
Mention installer in faq-cleanup.
Fix indexing snafu.

[originally from svn r5422]
2005-03-01 15:18:34 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
a2b583f137 Add context help to a couple of message boxes. Unfortunately the ones
I wanted to get to -- "software caused connection abort" and friends --
are going to be more involved (probably requiring some cross-platform
notion of help contexts), and these ones hardly seem worth the effort.
Still, I've done it now.

Side-effect: Pageant now uses the same `hinst' and `hwnd' globals as
everything else. Tested basic functionality.

[originally from svn r5417]
2005-03-01 01:16:57 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
f538bd6d4c Make it clearer that `-m' is only usable with SSH.
[originally from svn r5416]
2005-03-01 00:33:18 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
2487b41777 Update on Mac ports.
[originally from svn r5311]
2005-02-15 23:39:57 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
99122767f5 The Windows host key dialogs now have a `Help' button that should give
appropriate context help, iff the help file is present. (Shame it's prey to
`winhelp-crash'.)

(I've perpetrated a widening of visibility of `hwnd'; the alternative, putting
it into a frontend handle, seemed too likely to cause maintenance trouble if
we don't also _use_ that frontend handle everywhere we now use the global
`hwnd'.)

[originally from svn r5309]
2005-02-15 22:23:47 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
9d9c0fcffc Extra note on "connection reset by peer" on Windows.
Note default circumstances of cipher warning. (I haven't bothered with the
similar kex warning since it doesn't come up in the default configuration,
and is in any case unlikely to be common.)

[originally from svn r5302]
2005-02-15 12:35:59 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
63c26e722a WSAECONNABORTED: Soften claims + emphasise applicability to established
connections, based on KB 819124.

[originally from svn r5296]
2005-02-14 11:07:52 +00:00
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
Simon Tatham
2f7de95a2e Improve documentation of the SCP wildcard safety issue: in
particular, mention that doing an SCP wildcard download into a clean
directory is adequate protection against a malicious server trying
to overwrite your files.

[originally from svn r5279]
2005-02-09 15:57:07 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
4ae1aa3b48 Missing {Question}
[originally from svn r5278]
2005-02-09 15:42:28 +00:00
Ben Harris
0edf329190 We _really_ don't need to hear about WSAECONNABORTED any more.
[originally from svn r5276]
2005-02-08 14:13:57 +00:00
Ben Harris
0ed4829537 Mention that a common reason for keys' being rejected is dodgy permissions.
[originally from svn r5274]
2005-02-08 12:40:51 +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
a78e7271ee Mention Cygwin/X as a potential X server, since it's free.
[originally from svn r5107]
2005-01-13 21:50:41 +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
Jacob Nevins
b21e8ac60b Update faq-bce further for changes in 0.54.
[originally from svn r5076]
2005-01-07 15:25:32 +00:00
Simon Tatham
2d1f699293 I can't believe that after all this time we still had a rogue set of
`' quotes! Changed to \q{}.

[originally from svn r5069]
2005-01-06 15:47:12 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
77f029cf55 Try to make it clearer that "-be" and "-bc" must be specified in _addition_
to "-b batchfile".

[originally from svn r5067]
2005-01-06 12:37:33 +00:00
Simon Tatham
b93e12d477 It's a new year!
[originally from svn r5061]
[this svn revision also touched putty-website]
2005-01-02 09:19:14 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
5c952ce64e Document recent changes to PSFTP (and other documentation tweaks).
[originally from svn r5058]
2005-01-01 16:16:13 +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