Bug 1675

Summary:

SSH over Bluetooth support

Product:

Portable OpenSSH

Reporter:

David Woodhouse <dwmw2>

Component:

Miscellaneous

Assignee:

Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs>

Status:

CLOSED WONTFIX

Severity:

normal

CC:

djm

Priority:

Version:

5.3p1

Hardware:

Other

OS:

Linux

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Patch	none

Description David Woodhouse 2009-11-24 22:18:34 AEDT

Created attachment 1733 [details]
Patch

This patch adds basic support for SSH connections over Bluetooth RFCOMM sockets. It only adds the autoconf magic, along with support for correctly reporting the peer when sshd has been invoked with the '-i' argument from a Bluetooth dæmon working much like inetd, such as the one I have at http://david.woodhou.se/btserv.c 

Later patches will add the functionality from 'btserv.c' into sshd so that it can listen for itself, and will add support to the ssh client for making the connections directly; currently my testing uses
'ProxyCommand socat stdio SOCKET-CONNECT:31:3:x1ec1e4e21f000100'

Comment 1 Damien Miller 2018-06-01 14:48:31 AEST

I don't think we want this - it's pretty niche and can be achieved using a ProxyCommand on the client or wrapper around sshd in inetd mode at the server.

Comment 2 David Woodhouse 2018-06-01 18:24:06 AEST

Actually this *was* using a ProxyCommand and wrapper (not inetd itself, of course, since that's for IP. The linked btserv.c does it).

This patch was just the bare minimum to get sshd correctly handling the socket and reporting the source address.

The potential benefit of merging the btserv part is that we get to standardise the UUID (the Bluetooth equivalent of the standard port 22) for SSH over Bluetooth service. 

But this was all 9 years ago and my use case for this (mini PC in the car running as a music server and pretending to be a CD changer) isn't even running any more. And if I reinstate it, 802.11 connectivity is somewhat more reliable these days so I don't *need* to rely on being able to connect to it over Bluetooth when it can't connect to the network :)

Comment 3 Damien Miller 2018-10-19 17:17:28 AEDT

Close RESOLVED bugs with the release of openssh-8.0