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author | Jacob Nevins <jacobn@chiark.greenend.org.uk> | 2022-10-21 21:43:26 +0300 |
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committer | Jacob Nevins <jacobn@chiark.greenend.org.uk> | 2022-10-21 21:43:26 +0300 |
commit | 8c534c26fd8a8396a5386b416a74d557667357cb (patch) | |
tree | 5390cdd8639ac0c9614ee39390d206c40fcf92b8 | |
parent | 1d1d81d66e3fb997d598a8cf041eec4c916ebcdc (diff) |
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.
-rw-r--r-- | doc/gs.but | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -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 |