X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Ffaq.but;h=040d61e70acd4ce33aef6825afa5b957dc50a83f;hb=145ecf611238c4f1e39d89d3eee40319a2c54fe8;hp=ff3bd6d45660c6fee5bc12489097bd3434fe0ac4;hpb=f4713d37b88290e8ba8d1315bf5811ac145a9838;p=PuTTY.git diff --git a/doc/faq.but b/doc/faq.but index ff3bd6d4..040d61e7 100644 --- a/doc/faq.but +++ b/doc/faq.but @@ -64,7 +64,11 @@ files into PuTTY's format. Yes. SSH-1 support has always been available in PuTTY. However, the SSH-1 protocol has many weaknesses and is no longer -considered secure; it should be avoided if at all possible. +considered secure; you should use SSH-2 instead if at all possible. + +\#{XXX-REVIEW-BEFORE-RELEASE: +As of 0.68, PuTTY will no longer fall back to SSH-1 if the server +doesn't appear to support SSH-2; you must explicitly ask for SSH-1. } \S{faq-localecho}{Question} Does PuTTY support \i{local echo}? @@ -222,14 +226,14 @@ processors that are backward-compatible with that architecture. (We used to also provide executables for Windows for the Alpha processor, but stopped after 0.58 due to lack of interest.) -In the development code, partial ports to the Mac OSes exist (see +In the development code, a partial port to Mac OS exists (see \k{faq-mac-port}). Currently PuTTY does \e{not} run on Windows CE (see \k{faq-wince}). We do not have release-quality ports for any other systems at the -present time. If anyone told you we had an EPOC port, or an iPaq port, -or any other port of PuTTY, they were mistaken. We don't. +present time. If anyone told you we had an Android port, or an iOS +port, or any other port of PuTTY, they were mistaken. We don't. There are some third-party ports to various platforms, mentioned on the @@ -246,8 +250,8 @@ including the usual \c{configure}/\c{make}; see the file \c{README} in the source distribution. This should build you Unix ports of Plink, PuTTY itself, PuTTYgen, PSCP, PSFTP, and also \i\c{pterm} - an \cw{xterm}-type program which supports the same -terminal emulation as PuTTY. We do not yet have a Unix port of -Pageant. +terminal emulation as PuTTY. \#{XXX-REVIEW-BEFORE-RELEASE:} +We do not yet have a Unix port of Pageant. If you don't have \i{Gtk}, you should still be able to build the command-line tools. @@ -297,9 +301,6 @@ you'll need the right kind of C compiler - modern versions of Visual C at least have stopped being backwards compatible to Win32s. Also, the last time we tried this it didn't work very well. -If you're interested in running PuTTY under Windows 3.1, help and -testing in this area would be very welcome! - \S{faq-mac-port}{Question} Will there be a port to the \I{Mac OS}Mac? We hope so! @@ -334,8 +335,7 @@ for various third-party ports. We have no plans to write such a port ourselves; none of us has an iPhone, and developing and publishing applications for it looks -awkward and expensive. Such a port would probably depend upon the -stalled Mac OS X port (see \k{faq-mac-port}). +awkward and expensive. However, there is a third-party SSH client for the iPhone and iPod\_Touch called \W{http://www.instantcocoa.com/products/pTerm/}{pTerm},