-PW not working

[janwarming]

Describe the bug A clear and concise description of what the bug is.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. right click on host profile and click edit
2. insert "-pw password123" in Extra Putty Arguments
3. save
4. connect to the host

Expected behavior password inserted

actual result prompted to insert password

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• Windows 11

[janwarming]

if I enable "allow plain text passwords on putty command line" then putty will give an error "configured password was not accepted" no matter if i have added the -pw argument or not.

[janwarming]

okay now it is becoming a little more strange, i have 2 servers where passing the -pw is working as expected and two servers where it does not work

[janwarming]

I founds the problem. If the profile is a clone of another profile, passing the -pw is not working. When recreated the profile with all the same information, it was just working.

[jimradford]

how are you cloning the profile?

[SteffenEngewald]

Same issue, can reproduce:

1. "cloning" I did by

   • right click on a session in sessions pane
   • "save as" -> new name. While this worked in 1.4.0.8 and -pw xyz was fine, no pw inserted in 1.5.0.0 on opening sessions.

2. regardless of "copy as" or "new" session - no pw inserted into the session.

[SteffenEngewald]

adding:

• the Sessions.xml file has not been corrupted. All lines look ok, no strange chars in it.
• rolling back to 1.4.0.8 using the same Sessions.xml file restores the "-pw xyz" functionality. Means, it is not with the Sessions.XML file, but more or less with the method of opening the putty ssh session and passing along the pw from Superputty

[seanjmcm]

Had same problem, there is a popup where you must click ok if you start from scratch. It must have been missed when I copied the other connection. I'd say there's probably something in the text file, e.g. enable x