[KLUG Members] re: putty & suse

[Bruce Smith]

> >I've noticed that the putty application for Win32 can't connect to any of my 
> >SuSe servers (tells you how often I use a Winblows box).  But I can ssh into my 
> >RedHat boxes Ok.
> >
> >Putty is version 0.51
> >
> >It takes the username but won't accept any password,  and I nothing in the logs 
> >jumps out at me.
> >
> You need to update putty.  

Yes, I tried the latest and it seems to work with the default SuSE 9.2
settings.

> My version is 0.55, and there might be something newer than that.  

Yes there is; you might want to upgrade again.  From the web page:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

"2004-10-26 ANOTHER SECURITY HOLE, fixed in PuTTY 0.56"

 - BS