One of the on call engineers had copied some documentation to his clipboard which had like:
Dbfile 1 location > /u01/ora/whatever
And accidentally right clicked…
I absolutely blame that software for ruining my Christmas one year, and I can’t really forgive it.
Please use OpenSSH.
I'm having difficulty imagining this. I know of some who warn on multiline paste, but how exactly is it possible to "put a newline" but not "press enter"? Just emit a newline as output without sending as input?
There's lots of other programs that use C-q for quoting, for example emacs, and readline probably copied it from there in the first place.
When pasting text, it's a different code path than quoting. The terminal surely knows when text is being pasted. If nothing else, a simple heuristic based on typing speed is enough to tell apart typing and pasting.
Really saves you from the websites putting paragraphs of malicious code into seemingly a single simple line
This same action in Microsoft terminal would also have had the same outcome.
PuTTY is following a Microsoft precedent.
A literal PEBCAK issue, not a putty issue.