determining whether passwd auth succeeds

[Markus Friedl]

i think the commercial ssh.com ssh client has
a special option that makes ssh print out
a string when authentication is successful.

On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 01:29:32AM -0500, Lucas Fisher wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm writing a c++ wrapper around ssh for KDE, mainly for use in a sftp 
> client.  My problem is when starting ssh with the sftp subsystem openssh 
> gives no indication that password authentication succeeded.  This makes it 
> difficult for my wrapper to determine if the connection succeeded.  Now 
> determining it didn't succeed can be done by checking for another password 
> prompt.  The problem with this is password verification could take time 
> (correct?).  So if I send the password then immediately do a read from the 
> terminal, there is no guarantee I'll get the second password prompt if the 
> password was incorrect, right?  I could wait a couple of seconds and if I 
> don't get another password prompt  assume authentication succeeded, but this 
> is a bad solution. Are there any other techniques I could employ?
> 
> thanks,
> Lucas