Bug 900

Summary:

challenge-response prompt is ugly

Product:

Portable OpenSSH

Reporter:

Pavel Kankovsky <peak>

Component:

ssh

Assignee:

OpenSSH Bugzilla mailing list <openssh-bugs>

Status:

CLOSED FIXED

Severity:

enhancement

CC:

djm

Priority:

Version:

3.8.1p1

Hardware:

All

OS:

Linux

Attachments:

Description	Flags
patch fixing the problem	none

Description Pavel Kankovsky 2004-07-21 07:45:20 AEST

The client displays challenge-response authentication (SSH 1) prompt in a rather
ugly way (and IMHO somewhat confusing from the user's) way, e.g.

$ ssh -1 host
Password: 
Response: <cursor>

or

$ ssh -1 host
Very long prompt
including a line break
<cursor>

or even (the worst case)

$ ssh -1 host
Very long prompt
including line breaks
but lacking the terminal newline<cursor>

I think it should look like

$ ssh -1 host
Password: <cursor>

or

$ ssh -1 host
Very long prompt
including a line break
(maybe lacking the terminal newline)
Response: <cursor>

Comment 1 Pavel Kankovsky 2004-07-21 07:49:53 AEST

Created attachment 691 [details]
patch fixing the problem

A challenge ending with ": " is used as a prompt without any modification.
"Response: " is appended to a challenge ending with a newline.
"\nResponse: " is appended to any other challenge.

Comment 2 Damien Miller 2017-12-20 17:33:36 AEDT

Fixed by removal of SSHv1 code :P

Comment 3 Damien Miller 2021-04-23 15:00:24 AEST

closing resolved bugs as of 8.6p1 release