Mention the dangers of the "-pw" option.

[originally from svn r4336]

diff --git a/doc/man-pl.but b/doc/man-pl.but
index c26547282ae0d33c4855f8fb7bd4e0003b13cd16..1f34dc1a7f845eb2907c1fc9980f0aefdaf114c0 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man-pl.but
+++ b/doc/man-pl.but
@@ -65,7 +65,9 @@ The command-line options supported by \cw{plink} are:
 
 \dt \cw{-pw} \e{password}
 
-\dd Set remote password to \e{password}.
+\dd Set remote password to \e{password}. \e{CAUTION:} this will likely
+make the password visible to other users of the local machine (via
+commands such as \q{\c{w}}).
 
 \dt \cw{\-L} \cw{[}\e{srcaddr}\cw{:]}\e{srcport}\cw{:}\e{desthost}\cw{:}\e{destport}
 

diff --git a/doc/man-pscp.but b/doc/man-pscp.but
index c330a1ac98c5beeb5d3d18dfa6ff376d2c7e0727..d848043bd2514d78461658e87c7992ae08763e47 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man-pscp.but
+++ b/doc/man-pscp.but
@@ -70,7 +70,9 @@ The command-line options supported by \e{pscp} are:
 
 \dt \cw{-pw} \e{password}
 
-\dd Set remote password to \e{password}.
+\dd Set remote password to \e{password}. \e{CAUTION:} this will likely
+make the password visible to other users of the local machine (via
+commands such as \q{\c{w}}).
 
 \dt \cw{-1}
 

diff --git a/doc/man-psft.but b/doc/man-psft.but
index 5375f6f73584ab457384fc795cdcddeaefb9d138..a71e918e38cb64d4ef18252a4c12a7525312491f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man-psft.but
+++ b/doc/man-psft.but
@@ -58,7 +58,9 @@ The command-line options supported by \cw{psftp} are:
 
 \dt \cw{-pw} \e{password}
 
-\dd Set remote password to \e{password}.
+\dd Set remote password to \e{password}. \e{CAUTION:} this will likely
+make the password visible to other users of the local machine (via
+commands such as \q{\c{w}}).
 
 \dt \cw{-1}