Implementing sftp server-side timeout

[Damien Miller]

I don't think timeouts should be implemented in sftp-server, but in
sshd(8). I have a prototype of a generic channel timeout mechanism at
https://github.com/djmdjm/openssh-wip/pull/16

On Thu, 15 Dec 2022, Dmitry Belyavskiy wrote:

> Dear Darren and Damien,
> 
> Do you like the proposed approach and cmdline option?
> 
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 7:50 AM Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 20 Oct 2022, Peter Stuge wrote:
> >
> > > Finally, have you tested how this works with internal-sftp?
> > >
> > > I guess many large scale servers don't use internal-sftp because of
> > > logging requirements as discussed in an older thread but I bet that
> > > internal-sftp is desirable especially when scaling up so make sure
> > > to not neglect it. Thanks.
> >
> > I didn't catch the other thread, but internal-sftp logging should work
> > just fine.
> >
> > e.g. with
> >
> > Subsystem       sftp    internal-sftp -l verbose -f daemon
> >
> > I see:
> >
> > Oct 21 16:46:22 djm internal-sftp[82167]: session opened for local user
> > djm from [10.130.80.1]
> > Oct 21 16:46:22 djm internal-sftp[82167]: received client version 3
> > Oct 21 16:46:22 djm internal-sftp[82167]: realpath "."
> > Oct 21 16:47:59 djm internal-sftp[82167]: session closed for local user
> > djm from [10.130.80.1]
> >
> > -d
> >
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