From c80f77d8559672e3491066a6adacfc1496d0a585 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: simon Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 17:38:59 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify that port forwarding will not be enabled until the user has authenticated. git-svn-id: svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/putty@1479 cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e --- doc/using.but | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/using.but b/doc/using.but index 674d0a50..39919745 100644 --- a/doc/using.but +++ b/doc/using.but @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -\versionid $Id: using.but,v 1.3 2001/12/06 20:05:39 simon Exp $ +\versionid $Id: using.but,v 1.4 2001/12/13 17:38:59 simon Exp $ \C{using} Using PuTTY @@ -266,9 +266,12 @@ box. Enter the destination host name and port number into the \b Now click the \q{Add} button. The details of your port forwarding should appear in the list box. -Now start your session. To check that PuTTY has set up the port -forwarding correctly, you can look at the PuTTY Event Log (see -\k{using-eventlog}). It should say something like this: +Now start your session and log in. (Port forwarding will not be +enabled until after you have logged in; otherwise it would be easy +to perform completely anonymous network attacks, and gain access to +anyone's virtual private network). To check that PuTTY has set up +the port forwarding correctly, you can look at the PuTTY Event Log +(see \k{using-eventlog}). It should say something like this: \c 2001-12-05 17:22:10 Local port 3110 forwarding to \c popserver.example.com:110 -- 2.11.0