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authorTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2017-03-27 17:31:54 +0200
committerTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2017-03-27 17:42:52 +0200
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gnu: corkscrew: Improve descriptions.
* gnu/packages/ssh.scm (corkscrew)[synopsis, description]: Fix typos and condense. Remove scary warning (the tunnel is always encrypted through SSH) and speculation.
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@@ -292,12 +292,11 @@ libssh library.")
(string-append "." "/configure")
flags))))))))
(home-page "http://www.agroman.net/corkscrew")
- (synopsis "Tunneling SSH through HTTP proxies")
+ (synopsis "SSH tunneling through HTTP(S) proxies")
(description
- "Corkscrew allows creating TCP tunnels through HTTP proxies. WARNING:
-At the moment only plain text authentication is supported, should you require
-to use it with your HTTP proxy. Digest based authentication may be supported
-in future and NTLM based authentication is most likey never be supported.")
+ "Corkscrew tunnels SSH connections through most HTTP and HTTPS proxies.
+Proxy authentication is only supported through the plain-text HTTP basic
+authentication scheme.")
(license license:gpl2+)))
(define-public mosh