Done in much the same way as it is in the GTK front end: the character
cell width is determined using the font's digits (which seems to give
generally not-too-offensive spacing in most cases, at the expense of
Ms and Ws typically overhanging a bit into adjacent cells) and each
character is centred in its cell. Overhangs never leave permanent
droppings on the window, because the existing work done in r5003
handles them just fine even in this stressful scenario.
There's a hacky new checkbox in the Appearance panel to make
variable-pitch fonts appear in the font selector (they still don't by
default, because I still think it's _usually_ not What You Want); the
checkbox state is not actually stored as part of a saved session, but
it should be automatically ticked when reloading a session that's got
a variable pitch font selected.
(I'm half-expecting a potential flurry of requests for this feature in
the wake of http://xkcd.com/840/ , so I thought I'd pre-empt them :-)
[originally from svn r9063]
[r5003 == ba470dec5e]
are now loaded from standard locations (system32 for SSPI, the
registry-stored MIT KfW install location for KfW) rather than using
the risky default DLL search path; I've therefore also added an
option to manually specify a GSS DLL we haven't heard of (which
should in principle Just Work provided it supports proper GSS-API as
specified in the RFC). The same option exists on Unix too, because
it seemed like too useful an idea to reserve to Windows. In
addition, GSSAPI is now documented, and also (unfortunately) its GUI
configuration has been moved out into a sub-subpanel on the grounds
that it was too big to fit in Auth.
[originally from svn r9003]
today reported an SSH2_MSG_UNIMPLEMENTED from a Cisco router which
looks as if it was triggered by SSH2_MSG_IGNORE, so I'm
experimentally putting this flag in. Currently must be manually
enabled, though if it turns out to solve the user's problem then
I'll probably add at least one version string...
[Edited commit message: actually, I also committed in error a piece
of experimental code as part of this checkin. Serve me right for not
running 'svn diff' first.]
[originally from svn r8926]
page. Define in more detail what we mean by "Windows" in the Ports section of
the FAQ.
[originally from svn r8733]
[this svn revision also touched putty-website]
if we have no better ideas, with UI shamelessly stolen from Quest PuTTY.
Off by default, which effectively reverts the change to using the local
username by default that came in with GSSAPI support in r8138. Anyone wanting
seamless single sign-on will need to set the new option. (The previous
default behaviour was getting in the way in ad-hoc scenarios.)
Note that the PSCP and Unix-Plink behaviour of using the local username by
default have remained unchanged throughout; they are not affected by the new
option. Not sure if that's the Right Thing.
[originally from svn r8324]
[r8138 == de5dd9d65c]
strings more rigorously, and then we look up the local X authority
data in .Xauthority _ourself_ rather than delegating to an external
xauth program. This is (negligibly) more efficient on Unix, assuming
I haven't got it wrong in some subtle way, but its major benefit is
that we can now support X authority lookups on Windows as well
provided the user points us at an appropriate X authority file in
the standard format. A new Windows-specific config option has been
added for this purpose.
[originally from svn r8305]
on received data. Experiment and suggestion suggest that the character set
configuration applies equally to keystrokes sent to the server, or at least
that that's close enough to being true that we should document it as a first
approximation.
[originally from svn r8209]
Attempts at damage limitation from the name similarity with pterm.
Also try to refresh the ports section of the FAQ a bit.
[originally from svn r8139]
[this svn revision also touched putty-website]
to manually tweak the host name and port number under which the SSH
host key is read and written.
I've put it in the cross-platform Connection panel. Partly under the
flimsy pretext that other backends _can_ use it if they so wish (and
in fact it overrides the host name for title-bar purposes in all
network backends, though it has no other effect in anything but
SSH); but mostly because the SSH panel was too full already :-)
[originally from svn r8033]
advertise so that the server can't exceed our maximum packet size.
Enable it for "1.36_sshlib GlobalSCAPE" which apparently sends oversize
packets otherwise.
[originally from svn r7804]
know how I'd go about retrieving money from them any more because my
last exchange transaction went through a company who subsequently
turned out to be dodgy; and a user points out that e-gold is in
legal trouble, which suggests that avoiding it is probably wise.
[originally from svn r7604]
We now have an option where a remote window title query returns a well-formed
response containing the empty string. This should keep stop any server-side
application that was expecting a response from hanging, while not permitting
the response to be influenced by an attacker.
We also retain the ability to stay schtum. The existing checkbox has thus
grown into a set of radio buttons.
I've changed the default to the "empty string" response, even in the backward-
compatibility mode of loading old settings, which is a change in behaviour;
any users who want the old behaviour back will have to explicitly select it. I
think this is probably the Right Thing. (The only drawback I can think of is
that an attacker could still potentially use the relevant fixed strings for
mischief, but we already have other, similar reports.)
[originally from svn r7043]
and various calls to WinHelp() have been centralised into a new file
winhelp.c, which in turn has been modified to detect a .CHM file as
well as .HLP and select between them as appropriate. It explicitly
tries to load HHCTRL.OCX and use GetProcAddress, meaning that it
_should_ still work correctly on pre-HTML-Help platforms, falling
gracefully back to WinHelp, but although I tested this by
temporarily renaming my own HHCTRL.OCX I haven't yet been able to
test it on a real HTML-Help-free platform.
Also in this checkin: a new .but file and docs makefile changes to
make it convenient to build the sources for a .CHM. As yet, owing to
limitations of Halibut's CHM support, I'm not able to write a .CHM
directly, more's the pity.
[originally from svn r7000]
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]
- 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]
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]
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]
- fix diagnostic if keyfile and '-t' both specified
- add diagnostic for generating a key but discarding the private part
- document '-q' option
[originally from svn r6750]
Pageant for local authentication. (This is a `don't use Pageant for
authentication at session startup' button rather than a `pretend
Pageant doesn't exist' button: that is, agent forwarding is
independent of this option.)
[originally from svn r6572]
that the SSH-2 server is happy with. Fixed, and since I'm here, fix
`pubkeyfile-and-pageant' as well (for SSH-1 and SSH-2).
Also, in SSH-2, we now reexamine "methods that can continue" for every
Pageant key offer, which is technically more correct although it seems
unlikely that it was causing any real problems.
(It's not entirely pretty, but neither was the old code. We could probably
do with some sort of abstraction for public/private keys to avoid carting
lots of fiddly bits of data around.)
[originally from svn r6459]
[r6437 == 8719f92c14]
[this svn revision also touched putty-wishlist]
