Putty Bugs

From: EB (anon_at_nospam.com)
Date: 06/10/03 

Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 17:55:58 GMT

Putty seems to place a file called "PUTTY.RND" in C:\.

This is bad because:
* Putty is assuming it has permission to right to C:\. In locked down / more
secure / network windows nt, 2000, xp installations, only power users &
administrators have permission to right to this directory. This will crash
putty.
* Because C:\ is shared by all users, even a guest logging into the machine
has access to your saved settings / server ips / usernames / etc
* If every application saved to C:\, it would be a cluttered mess. Would you
put up with an application that save config files to / in linux?
* It's assuming there is a C:\ drive. In Windows NT/2000/XP, there might not
be.
* It doesn't support roaming profiles, meaning I need to setup new putty
settings in every machine I login at.

Could this file please be saved in the user's application data directory,
where it's supposed to go?
(ie/ C:\Documents and Settings\MyUsername\Application Data\Putty) or
(C:\WinNT\Profiles\MyUsername\Application Data\Putty), etc
There are windows API calls in Win 98+ to get this folder. If its win95,
just save in the current directory putty is in. <- proper behavior, M$ even
has docs on this.

Putty is great, sorry to be a nag... but it really is an inconvenience. If
putty was a linux app no one would put up with "/PUTTY.RND" so why should I
in windows? :-)

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