How do I stop Kitty from doing naughty AutoRelogin after resuming from Windows Sleep? I recall my Putty didn't do this. Where is password cached?

Question

I recently switched from Putty to Kitty (on windows7) and now I notice that after Windows Resumes from Standby/Sleep that it Automatically logs me in again. I see in the SSH kitty shell window:

Using username "myusername".
myusername@myip's password:
Send automatic password

I have configured KITTY to use files instead of Windows Registry and am using the kitty_portable.exe binary. I have logging enabled but I always have "OMIT known password fields" CHECKED. So I would like to know WHERE is my PASSWORD being CACHED? And how can I disable this feature so that my password is no longer cached? Under Connection->DATA there is nothing set for Auto-login username and when username is not specified its set to PROMPT. Auto-login password is also NOT set. So would appreciate any help to disable password caching.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 27 '18 at 18:18

2

You can disable password auto saving. Add these lines to your kitty.ini configuration file (it should in the same directory where your kitty.exe is):

[KiTTY]
userpasssshnosave=yes

answered Nov 27 '18 at 18:18

cyd

36

How do I stop Kitty from doing naughty AutoRelogin after resuming from Windows Sleep? I recall my Putty didn't do this. Where is password cached?

1 Answers1