From aecc2016e5a285fc27ea05b266750960f2041cc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jacob Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 18:33:06 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] A first stab at guidance for those lost souls who email us asking for login names and/or passwords. Feel free to hack. (NB, renumbers a section of the FAQ.) git-svn-id: svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/putty@6355 cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e --- doc/faq.but | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/faq.but b/doc/faq.but index dfa601c7..5b1b8549 100644 --- a/doc/faq.but +++ b/doc/faq.but @@ -395,12 +395,33 @@ On Unix, PuTTY stores all of this data in a directory \cw{~/.putty}. \H{faq-howto} HOWTO questions +\S{faq-login}{Question} What login name / password should I use? + +This is not a question you should be asking \e{us}. + +PuTTY is a communications tool, for making connections to other +computers. We maintain the tool; we \e{don't} administer any computers +that you're likely to be able to use, in the same way that the people +who make web browsers aren't responsible for most of the content you can +view in them. \#{FIXME: less technical analogy?} We cannot help with +questions of this sort. + +If you know the name of the computer you want to connect to, but don't +know what login name or password to use, you should talk to whoever +administers that computer. If you don't know who that is, see the next +question for some possible ways to find out. + +\# FIXME: some people ask us to provide them with a login name +apparently as random members of the public rather than in the +belief that we run a server belonging to an organisation they already +have some relationship with. Not sure what to say to such people. + \S{faq-commands}{Question} \I{commands on the server}What commands can I type into my PuTTY terminal window? -This is not a question you should be asking \e{us}. You need to read -the manuals, or ask the administrator, of \e{the computer you have -connected to}. +Again, this is not a question you should be asking \e{us}. You need +to read the manuals, or ask the administrator, of \e{the computer +you have connected to}. PuTTY does not process the commands you type into it. It's only a communications tool. It makes a connection to another computer; it -- 2.11.0