[GLLUG] putty titlebar

[Clay Dowling]

Caleb Cushing said:
> no... it reads a some sort of a DNS hostname.domainname record. but I'm
> not
> sure how it determines that. could be localsetting could be forward lookup
> reverse lookup. am I missing anything? how would I determine.

It's possible for a hacked server to lie to you about this.  Xterm allows
the setting of the title bar, and PuTTy supports this feature.  There's an
option under the PuTTy Windows settings to control this.

>
> On 8/22/06, Charles Ulrich < charles at idealso.com> wrote:
>>
>> Caleb Cushing wrote:
>> > when using putty to ssh where does it get the info from  that's in the
>> > title bar? seems I've been cracked. I need to be more paranoid. but
>> > first I need to figure out how much damage was caused.
>>
>> At a guess, it's probably reading the escape sequences mentioned here:
>>
>>
>> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/xterm-title-bar-manipulations.html
>> --
>> Charles Ulrich
>> Ideal Solution, LLC -- http://www.idealso.com
>>
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