REQ: Minor change ton handling of without-password

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Thu Nov 1 09:36:58 EST 2001


On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Iain Morgan wrote:

> nopython.imorgan 154> ssh root at sun566
> root at sun566's password: 
> Permission denied.
> 
> In the case of OpenSSH, you simply get 'Permission denied'  which may lead
> some to incorrectly assume that the issue is a mistyped password.

We do not want to expose the reason why access is denied - we go to some
trouble to ensure this.

-d

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