nckx pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.
commit 10c95711b4ec69706377bd0f3db86f1cf2bb047a
Author: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email protected]>
Date: Mon Mar 27 17:31:54 2017 +0200
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.
---
gnu/packages/ssh.scm | 9 ++++-----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/ssh.scm b/gnu/packages/ssh.scm
index 67ffe1f..b5c73ea 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/ssh.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/ssh.scm
@@ -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
