Comment 7 for bug 237297

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 237297] Re: Win32: The server's host key is not cached in the registry

On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 23:37 +0000, Martin Pool wrote:
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> So, actually, this may be partly a putty issue, but I'm not convinced
> it's reasonable to make the user run plink first manually. Can't we
> get
> it to prompt like openssh does, ie asking on the first time you
> connect
> to the host then storing that result.

IIRC the API to get the terminal securely [when not started with it] was
only added in Vista or perhaps XP. So putty being a subprocess is
possibly/likely the cause.

-Rob