Have a putty log file and want readable text. How do I omit text formats? [?1034
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Have a putty log file and want readable text. How do I omit text formats?
[?1034hu3479705@cois-linux:~> ls
[0m[01;34manimal[0m [00mhelp[0m [00mpizza[0m
[01;34mbin[0m [00mls.out[0m [00mpractical[0m
[00mdays[0m [01;34mmammals[0m [00mpresently the policy of IANA to assign a single well-known[0m
[00;32mdog[0m [00mmessage.txt[0m [00mt updated on 2011-11-23)[0m
[00mecho:[0m [00mOutput[0m
u3479705@cois-linux:~> rm pizza
u3479705@cois-linux:~> ls
u3479705@cois-linux:~> vim pizza
[?1049h[?1h=[1;24r[?12;25h[?12l[?25h[27m[m[H[2J[?25l[24;1H"pizza" [New File][>c[2;1H[1m[34m~ [3;1H~ [4;1H~ [5;1H~
Explanation / Answer
ANSWER::
‘OMIT KNOWN PASSWORD FIELDS’
When checked, decrypted password fields are removed from the log of transmitted packets. (This includes any user responses to challenge-response authentication methods such as ‘keyboard-interactive’.) This does not include X11 authentication data if using X11 forwarding.
Note that this will only omit data that PuTTY knows to be a password. However, if you start another login session within your PuTTY session, for instance, any password used will appear in the clear in the packet log. The next option may be of use to protect against this.
This option is enabled by default.
‘OMIT SESSION DATA’
When checked, all decrypted ‘session data’ is omitted; this is defined as data in terminal sessions and in forwarded channels (TCP, X11, and authentication agent). This will usually substantially reduce the size of the resulting log file.
This option is disabled by default.
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