OpenSSH server doesn't log client disconnect without SSH_MSG_DISCONNECT

Opty opty77 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 5 23:14:39 AEST 2024


On Wed, Jun 5, 2024 at 6:03 AM Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jun 2024, Opty wrote:
> > Indeed I am.
> >
> > What now?
>
> We need to decide whether to promote these log messages to INFO.
>
> > Should PuTTY change its 'perfectly OK to unceremoniously
> > slam the connection shut when you're done' attitude?
>
> I don't think they need to. I think it's fair that we log connections
> that are terminated regardsless of how graceful the termination was.
> E.g. why shouldn't we log connections that drop because the peer
> process got SIGINT or the TCP connection dropped before sending a
> SSH2_MSG_DISCONNECT?

I will wait for the final verdict then. Thanks for letting me know.

Regards,
Opty


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