Updated ssh-agent authentication retry patch available

Jos Backus jos at catnook.com
Sat Jun 1 09:23:38 EST 2002


This patch against OpenSSH 3.2.3p1 implements an ssh-agent authentication
retry mechanism which is useful when starting many ssh clients in a short
period of time. The number of retries and the maximum delay between retries is
runtime-configurable using

        AuthMaxRetries <integer>
	AuthRetryDelay <seconds>

The patch is available at:

    http://www.catnook.com/patches/openssh-3.2.3p1-auth-retry.patch

While I have no hopes of this being merged into the main OpenSSH distribution,
perhaps other people may find it useful. Comments welcome.

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