Note that this is \e{not} the feature of PuTTY which the server will
typically use to determine your terminal type. That feature is the
-\q{Terminal-type string} in the Connection panel; see
+\q{\ii{Terminal-type} string} in the Connection panel; see
\k{config-termtype} for details.
You can include control characters in the answerback string using
\H{config-keyboard} The Keyboard panel
The Keyboard configuration panel allows you to control the behaviour
-of the \i{keyboard} in PuTTY.
+of the \i{keyboard} in PuTTY. The correct state for many of these
+settings depends on what the server to which PuTTY is connecting
+expects. With a \i{Unix} server, this is likely to depend on the
+\i\c{termcap} or \i\c{terminfo} entry it uses, which in turn is likely to
+be controlled by the \q{\ii{Terminal-type} string} setting in the Connection
+panel; see \k{config-termtype} for details. If none of the settings here
+seems to help, you may find \k{faq-keyboard} to be useful.
\S{config-backspace} Changing the action of the \ii{Backspace key}
(Typing \i{Shift-Backspace} will cause PuTTY to send whichever code
isn't configured here as the default.)
-\S{config-homeend} Changing the action of the \I{Home and End keys}
+\S{config-homeend} Changing the action of the \i{Home and End keys}
\cfg{winhelp-topic}{keyboard.homeend}
movement commands (\cw{hjklyubn}). The 5 key generates the \c{.}
command (do nothing).
-Better still, pressing Shift with the keypad keys generates the
-capital forms of the commands (\cw{HJKLYUBN}), which tells NetHack
-to keep moving you in the same direction until you encounter
-something interesting.
+In addition, pressing Shift or Ctrl with the keypad keys generate
+the Shift- or Ctrl-keys you would expect (e.g. keypad-7 generates
+\cq{y}, so Shift-keypad-7 generates \cq{Y} and Ctrl-keypad-7
+generates Ctrl-Y); these commands tell NetHack to keep moving you in
+the same direction until you encounter something interesting.
For some reason, this feature only works properly when \i{Num Lock} is
on. We don't know why.
If you enable \q{Paste to clipboard in RTF as well as plain text},
PuTTY will write formatting information to the clipboard as well as
-the actual text you copy. Currently the only effect of this will be
+the actual text you copy. The effect of this is
that if you paste into (say) a word processor, the text will appear
-in the word processor in the same \i{font} PuTTY was using to display
-it. In future it is likely that other formatting information (bold,
-underline, colours) will be copied as well.
+in the word processor in the same \i{font}, \i{colour}, and style
+(e.g. bold, underline) PuTTY was using to display it.
This option can easily be inconvenient, so by default it is
disabled.
values} for that colour will appear on the right-hand side of the
list box. Now, if you press the \q{Modify} button, you will be
presented with a colour selector, in which you can choose a new
-colour to go in place of the old one.
+colour to go in place of the old one. (You may also edit the RGB
+values directly in the edit boxes, if you wish; each value is an
+integer from 0 to 255.)
PuTTY allows you to set the \i{cursor colour}, the \i{default foreground}
and \I{default background}background, and the precise shades of all the
side doesn't believe there is an open connection any more.
Keepalives can make this sort of problem worse, because they
increase the probability that PuTTY will attempt to send data during
-a break in connectivity. Therefore, you might find they help
+a break in connectivity. (Other types of periodic network activity
+can cause this behaviour; in particular, SSH-2 re-keys can have
+this effect. See \k{config-ssh-kex-rekey}.)
+
+Therefore, you might find that keepalives help
connection loss, or you might find they make it worse, depending on
what \e{kind} of network problems you have between you and the
server.
send the right \i{control sequence}s to each one, the server will need
to know what type of terminal it is dealing with. Therefore, each of
the SSH, Telnet and Rlogin protocols allow a text string to be sent
-down the connection describing the terminal.
+down the connection describing the terminal. On a \i{Unix} server,
+this selects an entry from the \i\c{termcap} or \i\c{terminfo} database
+that tells applications what \i{control sequences} to send to the
+terminal, and what character sequences to expect the \i{keyboard}
+to generate.
PuTTY attempts to emulate the Unix \i\c{xterm} program, and by default
it reflects this by sending \c{xterm} as a terminal-type string. If
The \ii{Proxy} panel allows you to configure PuTTY to use various types
of proxy in order to make its network connections. The settings in
this panel affect the primary network connection forming your PuTTY
-session, but also any extra connections made as a result of SSH \i{port
+session, and also any extra connections made as a result of SSH \i{port
forwarding} (see \k{using-port-forwarding}).
\S{config-proxy-type} Setting the proxy type
through to an external host. Selecting \I{Telnet proxy}\q{Telnet}
allows you to tell PuTTY to use this type of proxy.
+\b Selecting \I{Local proxy}\q{Local} allows you to specify an arbitrary
+command on the local machine to act as a proxy. When the session is
+started, instead of creating a TCP connection, PuTTY runs the command
+(specified in \k{config-proxy-command}), and uses its standard input and
+output streams.
+
+\lcont{
+This could be used, for instance, to talk to some kind of network proxy
+that PuTTY does not natively support; or you could tunnel a connection
+over something other than TCP/IP entirely.
+}
+
\S{config-proxy-exclude} Excluding parts of the network from proxying
\cfg{winhelp-topic}{proxy.exclude}
passwords.
\b You can specify a way to include a username and password in the
-Telnet proxy command (see \k{config-proxy-command}).
+Telnet/Local proxy command (see \k{config-proxy-command}).
-\S{config-proxy-command} Specifying the Telnet proxy command
+\S{config-proxy-command} Specifying the Telnet or Local proxy command
\cfg{winhelp-topic}{proxy.command}
name and a port number. If your proxy needs a different command,
you can enter an alternative here.
+If you are using the \i{Local proxy} type, the local command to run
+is specified here.
+
In this string, you can use \c{\\n} to represent a new-line, \c{\\r}
to represent a carriage return, \c{\\t} to represent a tab
character, and \c{\\x} followed by two hex digits to represent any
Also, the special strings \c{%host} and \c{%port} will be replaced
by the host name and port number you want to connect to. The strings
\c{%user} and \c{%pass} will be replaced by the proxy username and
-password you specify. To get a literal \c{%} sign, enter \c{%%}.
+password you specify. The strings \c{%proxyhost} and \c{%proxyport}
+will be replaced by the host details specified on the \e{Proxy} panel,
+if any (this is most likely to be useful for the Local proxy type).
+To get a literal \c{%} sign, enter \c{%%}.
-If the Telnet proxy server prompts for a username and password
+If a Telnet proxy server prompts for a username and password
before commands can be sent, you can use a command such as:
\c %user\n%pass\nconnect %host %port\n
mail user agent, for example). If you want to do this, enter the
command in the \q{\ii{Remote command}} box.
+Note that most servers will close the session after executing the
+command.
+
\S{config-ssh-noshell} \q{Don't start a \I{remote shell}shell or
\I{remote command}command at all}
This option only affects SSH-2 connections. SSH-1 connections always
require an authentication step.
+\S{config-ssh-tryagent} \q{Attempt authentication using Pageant}
+
+\cfg{winhelp-topic}{ssh.auth.pageant}
+
+If this option is enabled, then PuTTY will look for Pageant (the SSH
+private-key storage agent) and attempt to authenticate with any
+suitable public keys Pageant currently holds.
+
+This behaviour is almost always desirable, and is therefore enabled
+by default. In rare cases you might need to turn it off in order to
+force authentication by some non-public-key method such as
+passwords.
+
+This option can also be controlled using the \c{-noagent}
+command-line option. See \k{using-cmdline-agentauth}.
+
+See \k{pageant} for more information about Pageant in general.
+
\S{config-ssh-tis} \q{Attempt \I{TIS authentication}TIS or
\i{CryptoCard authentication}}
\cfg{winhelp-topic}{ssh.auth.tis}
-TIS and CryptoCard authentication are simple \I{challenge/response
-authentication}challenge/response forms of authentication available in
-SSH protocol version 1 only. You might use them if you were using \i{S/Key}
-\i{one-time passwords}, for example, or if you had a physical \i{security
-token} that generated responses to authentication challenges.
+TIS and CryptoCard authentication are (despite their names) generic
+forms of simple \I{challenge/response authentication}challenge/response
+authentication available in SSH protocol version 1 only. You might use
+them if you were using \i{S/Key} \i{one-time passwords}, for example,
+or if you had a physical \i{security token} that generated responses
+to authentication challenges.
With this switch enabled, PuTTY will attempt these forms of
authentication if the server is willing to try them. You will be
private key in another format that you want to use with PuTTY, see
\k{puttygen-conversions}.
+If a key file is specified here, and \i{Pageant} is running (see
+\k{pageant}), PuTTY will first try asking Pageant to authenticate with
+that key, and ignore any other keys Pageant may have. If that fails,
+PuTTY will ask for a passphrase as normal.
+
\H{config-ssh-tty} The TTY panel
The TTY panel lets you configure the remote pseudo-terminal.
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