From 59c1f1f65f72f26a4ecff5deb8bb7918239a7032 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: simon Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 15:11:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add the FAQ about `nothing happens when I try to type my password'. git-svn-id: svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/putty@1337 cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e --- doc/faq.but | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/faq.but b/doc/faq.but index 59e540f3..b95f74fc 100644 --- a/doc/faq.but +++ b/doc/faq.but @@ -487,6 +487,17 @@ your terminal runs the risk of sending the same control sequence by accident, and cause unexpected changes in the window title. Don't do it. +\S{faq-password} My keyboard stops working once PuTTY displays the +password prompt. + +No, it doesn't. PuTTY just doesn't display the password you type, so +that someone looking at your screen can't see what it is. + +Unlike the Windows login prompts, PuTTY doesn't display the password +as a row of asterisks either. This is so that someone looking at +your screen can't even tell how \e{long} your password is, which +might be valuable information. + \H{faq-secure} Security questions \S{faq-publicpc} Is it safe for me to download PuTTY and use it on a -- 2.11.0