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| gssapi_delegation (martin) | update from the latest putty documentation (martin) | ||
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| The switch controls the use of GSSAPI authentication. This is a mechanism which delegates the authentication exchange to a library elsewhere on the client machine, which in principle can authenticate in many different ways but in practice is usually used with the Kerberos single sign-on protocol to implement passwordless login. | The switch controls the use of GSSAPI authentication. This is a mechanism which delegates the authentication exchange to a library elsewhere on the client machine, which in principle can authenticate in many different ways but in practice is usually used with the Kerberos single sign-on protocol to implement passwordless login. | ||
| - | %%GSSAPI%% is only available in the SSH-2 protocol. | + | %%GSSAPI%% authentication is only available in the SSH-2 protocol. |
| If the option is disabled, %%GSSAPI%% will not be attempted at all and the rest of this panel is unused. If it is enabled, %%GSSAPI%% authentication will be attempted, and (typically) if your client machine has valid Kerberos credentials loaded, then WinSCP should be able to authenticate automatically to servers that support Kerberos login. | If the option is disabled, %%GSSAPI%% will not be attempted at all and the rest of this panel is unused. If it is enabled, %%GSSAPI%% authentication will be attempted, and (typically) if your client machine has valid Kerberos credentials loaded, then WinSCP should be able to authenticate automatically to servers that support Kerberos login. | ||