to comp.security.ssh, posting queries that are clearly about PuTTY to
newsgroups without actually mentioning PuTTY, and so on. They may have been
directed there by this document :( Add a futile attempt to instil a sense of
etiquette.
[originally from svn r6895]
BUG_NEEDS_SSH1_PLAIN_PASSWORD do exactly what it says on the tin, independent
of whether BUG_CHOKES_ON_SSH1_IGNORE is set.
This is invisible in the default configuration, as all servers marked as having
the second bug have the first one too, but it would allow one to manually
configure PuTTY to cope with a SSH-1 server that got upset by ignore messages
during authentication, but was fine with their use as keepalives.
[originally from svn r6876]
is liable to have been set on serial ports previously used as
terminal devices, and definitely wants not to be set on serial ports
being used for callout.
[originally from svn r6865]
session, we were clearing the new session_closed flag, but failing
to clear must_close_session; with that set, the session was being
opened but immediately re-closed.
[originally from svn r6857]
[r6802 == 0dcdb6c3c1]
under X: instead of having two separate fixed-width fonts one of
which is twice the width of the other, you can instead have a single
font in which some characters are twice as wide as others.
This is implemented very simply: if you specify a wide font, it will
be used for wide characters, and if you don't then the normal font
will be used for wide characters (so they'd better _be_ wide in that
font, or there'll be trouble).
I got this idea from Jed, whose latest version supports UTF-8 and
requires a font of this type. If there are going to be X fonts like
that kicking around, there will doubtless be people who want to use
them.
[originally from svn r6844]
required. (I just tried getting rid of them; it worked fine for
serial ports, but not for anything else. The Windows I/O API sucks.)
[originally from svn r6843]
- changes to Logging panel
- breaks in serial backend
(Plus, completely unrelated, an index term entry related to port forwarding
which seems to have been sitting around for ages, possibly waiting for me to
think about `see also' index terms in Halibut.)
[originally from svn r6836]
in an SSH connection _in addition_ to the decrypted packets. This
will hopefully come in useful for debugging wire data corruption
issues: you can strace the server, enable this mode in the client,
and compare the sent and received data.
I'd _like_ to have this mode also log Diffie-Hellman private
exponents, session IDs, encryption and MAC keys, so that the
resulting log file could be used to independently verify the
correctness of all cryptographic operations performed by PuTTY.
However, I haven't been able to convince myself that the security
implications are acceptable. (It doesn't matter that this
information would permit an attacker to decrypt the session, because
the _already_ decrypted session is stored alongside it in the log
file. And I'm not planning, under any circumstances, to log users'
private keys. But gaining access to the log file while the session
was still running would permit an attacker to _hijack_ the session,
and that's the iffy bit.)
[originally from svn r6835]
behave like a pointer. In particular, the right thing to set a
HANDLE to to indicate that it's invalid is INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE, not
NULL. Crack down on sloppy use of NULL HANDLEs across all Windows
code.
(There is one oddity, which is that {Create,Open}FileMapping are
documented to return a NULL HANDLE instead of INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE
on failure. Shrug. If MS want to be inconsistent, I suppose I have
to live with it.)
[originally from svn r6833]
values one might expect, which means that GetMessage() was
occasionally blocking the process. That appears to be the last of
the annoying data loss issues, so I think the Windows serial back
end actually looks vaguely reliable now. Phew.
[originally from svn r6830]
(presumably Windows's serial buffer is actually _filling up_,
causing an XOFF to be sent, now that my dodgy I/O code isn't causing
it to leak). So I think I'll switch the default flow control to
XON/XOFF, since it actually seems to do something now.
[originally from svn r6829]
unfriendly in an interactive session, because at 19200 baud it takes
nearly two seconds to receive that much data, and as long as the
data is flowing continuously Windows waits until it has a full
buffer. So here's another annoying flag in the winhandl API, which
restricts reads to length 1 so that serial output shows up as it
appears.
(I tried this yesterday, but without the OVERLAPPED fix in r6826 it
behaved very erratically. It now seems solid.)
[originally from svn r6827]
[r6826 == 2aedc83f8d]
there): `plink host -nc host2:port' causes the SSH connection's main
channel to be replaced with a direct-tcpip connection to the
specified destination. This feature is mainly designed for use as a
local proxy: setting your local proxy command to `plink %proxyhost
-nc %host:%port' lets you tunnel SSH over SSH with a minimum of
fuss. Works on all platforms.
[originally from svn r6823]
I own has both an X display and a working serial port) I have been
unable to give this the full testing it deserves; I've managed to
demonstrate the basic functionality of Unix Plink talking to a
serial port, but I haven't been able to test the GTK front end. I
have no reason to think it will fail, but I'll be more comfortable
once somebody has actually tested it.
[originally from svn r6822]
options, here's a slight change to the API of ser_setup_config_box()
to make it filter its parity and flow control options using
platform-supplied bit masks.
[originally from svn r6820]
in place of making a network connection. This has involved a couple
of minor infrastructure changes:
- New dlg_label_change() function in the dialog.h interface, which
alters the label on a control. Only used, at present, to switch
the Host Name and Port boxes into Serial Line and Speed, which
means that any platform not implementing serial connections (i.e.
currently all but Windows) does not need to actually do anything
in this function. Yet.
- New small piece of infrastructure: cfg_launchable() determines
whether a Config structure describes a session ready to be
launched. This was previously determined by seeing if it had a
non-empty host name, but it has to check the serial line as well
so there's a centralised function for it. I haven't gone through
all front ends and arranged for this function to be used
everywhere it needs to be; so far I've only checked Windows.
- Similarly, cfg_dest() returns the destination of a connection
(host name or serial line) in a text format suitable for putting
into messages such as `Unable to connect to %s'.
[originally from svn r6815]
a serial port backend:
- In order to do simultaneous reading and writing on the same
HANDLE, you must enable overlapped access and pass an OVERLAPPED
structure to each ReadFile and WriteFile call. This would make
sense if it were an optional thing I could do if I wanted to do
the reading and writing in the same thread, but making it
mandatory even if I'm doing them in _different_ threads is just
annoying and arbitrary.
- Serial ports occasionally return length 0 from ReadFile, for no
particularly good reason. Fortunately serial ports also don't
have a real EOF condition to speak of, so ignoring EOFs is
actually a viable response in spite of sounding utterly gross.
Hence, handle_{input,output}_new() now accept a flags parameter,
which includes a flag to enable the OVERLAPPED bureaucracy and a
flag to cause EOFs to be ignored on input handles. The current
clients of winhandl.c do not use either of these.
[originally from svn r6813]
it's NULL. Since we already have one back end (uxpty) which doesn't
in fact talk to a network socket, and may well have more soon, I'm
replacing this TCP/IP-centric function with a nice neutral
`connected' function returning a boolean. Nothing else about its
semantics has currently changed.
[originally from svn r6810]
inherit _our_ ends of its I/O pipes! Otherwise, closing our copy of
those handles does not cause it to see EOF on its stdin, because
it's holding the pipe open itself.
[originally from svn r6808]
to do something, otherwise handle_get_events will forget to tell the
front end to check for that subthread finishing. This applies even
when we're only setting `busy' to tell the subthread to terminate!
[originally from svn r6805]
of the previous ad-hockery which depended on the return value from
select_result() and hence which will not adapt sensibly to a world
in which the primary session is something local rather than a
network connection.
[originally from svn r6802]
session termination. `Close window only on clean exit' was not
working properly on Unix in the absence of this:
notify_remote_exit() was being called and ssh_return_exitcode was
returning zero, causing gtk_main_quit() to be called, _before_
connection_fatal() happened.
[originally from svn r6801]
because it gets unconditionally sfree()d in sk_addr_free(). This
just bit me when running under the MSVC debugger; not sure how it
hasn't bitten anyone until now!
[originally from svn r6800]
