random openssh todo notes

Markus Friedl Markus.Friedl at informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Mon Apr 9 21:18:58 EST 2001


On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 10:56:08AM +0900, Tom Holroyd wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Markus Friedl wrote:
> 
> > http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~msfriedl/openssh/TODO
> 
> ->
> require multiple methods for user authentication
> 	(e.g. password AND public-key must both succeed to log in)
> 
> I think the patch submitted by Carson Gaspar <carson at taltos.org>
> to implement partial authentication does this.

yes, i've seen this. there is a similar (unfinished) patch
that the TODO list is talking about:

http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~msfriedl/openssh/required-unfinished

i'd like to get rid of
	PasswordAuthention yes/no
	RSAAuthention yes/no
and move to
	SupportedAuthentications
for both SSH1/2

> ->
> specify the order of user authentication methods the client tries
> 
> PreferredAuthentications is already in 2.5.2p2.

oh yes :) i didn't say the TODO list is up-to-date :)

-m



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