Testing openssh-1.2.1pre25

[Damien Miller]

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On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Ben Taylor wrote:

>
> Since I have been involved with the OpenSSH project, I've seen
> references to really cool things that people are using OpenSSH for.
> However, my limitation comes from lack of experience with ssh type
> projects/products, and my testing tends to be pretty minimal.
>
> What do you think about starting a suite of testing methods for
> OpenSSH?  I figure there are some pretty cool things being done out
> there, and those of us who have resources could further stress-test
> the code with good examples of testing methods.

Before a do a release I do some basic tests:

Basic connectivity

RSA authentication

Password authentication

If I have time, or have touched a lot of the code I do one or more 
of the following:

Connect OpenSSH -> commercial SSH

Connect Commerical SSH -> OpenSSH

ssh-keygen

ssh-agent

while [ 1 ] ; do ssh djm at localhost /bin/true || echo FAIL ; done

scp a couple of large files around & do md5sums on the results

Notably absent is testing of the port-forwarding.

> I would like to volunteer to accept testing methods from other
> OpenSSH folks who really stress out the protocol and systems. What
> I'm looking for is a complete but short description of how to set up
> the "test", along with any shell code, or other fragments of code
> needed to make the test work for us ssh dummies.  Once I have it
> standardized with documentation and code, I'll forward it to Damien
> for inclusion in the tree.

A testing framework would be wonderful, perhaps a test subdirectory
and multiple tests implemented as makefile rules and/or shell 
scripts.

I will assist wherever possible, this promises to make my life much 
easier :)

Regards,
Damien

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