X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/sgt/putty/blobdiff_plain/811453cbc32f1f0f14cfef25f54eabf2e3b28bd9..e9dc929e1842a5e9c36ff698c132f219ba02f52f:/unix/pterm.1 diff --git a/unix/pterm.1 b/unix/pterm.1 index eb9fc835..ed0a7c54 100644 --- a/unix/pterm.1 +++ b/unix/pterm.1 @@ -201,6 +201,22 @@ screen exactly the way they found it. This option should be set to either 0 or 1; the default is 0. When set to 1, it stops the server from remotely controlling the title of the \fIpterm\fP window. +.IP "\fBpterm.NoRemoteQTitle\fP" +This option should be set to either 0 or 1; the default is 1. When +set to 1, it stops the server from remotely requesting the title of +the \fIpterm\fP window. + +This feature is a \fBPOTENTIAL SECURITY HAZARD\fP. If a malicious +application can write data to your terminal (for example, if you +merely \fIcat\fP a file owned by someone else on the server +machine), it can change your window title (unless you have disabled +this using the \fBNoRemoteWinTitle\fP resource) and then use this +service to have the new window title sent back to the server as if +typed at the keyboard. This allows an attacker to fake keypresses +and potentially cause your server-side applications to do things you +didn't want. Therefore this feature is disabled by default, and we +recommend you do not turn it on unless you \fBreally\fP know what +you are doing. .IP "\fBpterm.NoDBackspace\fP" This option should be set to either 0 or 1; the default is 0. When set to 1, it disables the normal action of the Delete (^?) character @@ -450,5 +466,3 @@ resource is equivalent to the \fI\-ls\fP command-line option. .SH BUGS Most of the X resources have silly names. (Historical reasons from PuTTY, mostly.) - -Character-set switching and Unicode are not yet supported.