PuTTY bug userpass-state-assertion

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summary: term->userpass_state assertion when restarting a session that timed out in login
class: bug: This is clearly an actual problem we want fixed.
present-in: 0.82
fixed-in: edd5e13ffc976025443e0b9d75888249aa3325a9 (0.83)

In PuTTY 0.82, if you made an SSH connection and the server closed it while you were still at a login prompt, then attempting to use the "Restart Session" menu option would cause an assertion failure reporting the following details:

Now the userpass_state is cleared from the terminal when an SSH session ends, so it's not still lying around to confuse the code when a new SSH session wants to ask for login details.

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(last revision of this bug record was at 2024-12-20 13:20:02 +0000)