From: simon <simon@cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 13:29:04 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: -pw in Plink doesn't work in Telnet. Mention this.
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-pw in Plink doesn't work in Telnet. Mention this.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/putty@1554 cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e
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diff --git a/doc/plink.but b/doc/plink.but
index a1ef625f..4b06e11b 100644
--- a/doc/plink.but
+++ b/doc/plink.but
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-\versionid $Id: plink.but,v 1.13 2001/12/31 16:15:19 simon Exp $
+\versionid $Id: plink.but,v 1.14 2002/02/04 13:29:04 simon Exp $
 
 \C{plink} Using the command-line connection tool Plink
 
@@ -203,6 +203,10 @@ on the Plink command line. This is \e{not recommended} for reasons
 of security. If you possibly can, we recommend you set up public-key
 authentication instead. See \k{pubkey} for details.
 
+Note that the \c{-pw} option only works when you are using the SSH
+protocol. Due to fundamental limitations of Telnet and Rlogin, these
+protocols do not support automated password authentication.
+
 \S2{plink-usage-options-user}\c{-l username} login with specified
 username