3.4p1 ssh-agent auth-retry patch available: was: Re: Updated ssh-agent authentication retry patch available

[Jos Backus]

I'm happy to hear people find this useful (it's indispensable here at work)
and would be interested in hearing about any problems. The updated patch can
be downloaded from

    http://www.catnook.com/patches/openssh-3.4p1-auth-retry.patch

Cheers,
Jos

On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 02:04:05PM -0500, Kevin Currie wrote:
> 	I see Jos has updated his patch to work against 3.4p1, and I've 
> 	applied
> it with success.  From my standpoint, this patch is absolutely REQUIRED and
> ssh's utility is greatly reduced without it.  It's simply impossible to run
> 30+ ssh-agent authenticated sessions at once without this patch-- you get 
> WAY too many
> failures.  I am 100% behind this being included in the main distribution, is
> there anybody who isn't??   For those that don't think this should be 
> included,
> how do you propose to handle a large amount of concurrent authentications?
> 
> 	comments welcome!

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