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

Jos Backus jos at catnook.com
Thu Jul 18 08:26:47 EST 2002


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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