[X2Go-Dev] Bug in sshproxy handling

[Oleksandr Shneyder]

Am 17.05.19 um 08:55 schrieb Ulrich Sibiller:
> On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 3:48 PM Oleksandr Shneyder
> <o.shneyder at phoca-gmbh.de> wrote:
>> It's not only about updating the user passwords. This kind interaction
>> could be used for 2-factor authentication and in many other cases. There
>> are many possible cases when server needs to have some additional
>> interaction with user and updating of passwords is only one of them.
>> After user auth is important to figure out if our session is ready and
>> accepting user commands or we need further interaction. I didn't find
>> better solution to find this out than sending an echo command and parse
>> the answer.
>> It's sad, that it's breaking your setup. If I understand it right, it's
>> because your proxy closing connection when user executing something else
>> than ssh. Maybe you can reconfigure your proxy and make "echo LOGIN OK"
>> a valid command, this should solve your problem.
> 
> Thanks for clarification.
> 
> No, I have no control over that proxy. This is a security gateway to a
> big company. I suggest a checkmark indication if that check should be
> skipped.
> 
> Uli
> 

Hi Uli,

technically it's a very simple solution. However I'm not sure if it
worth to make UI more complicated and loaded with features which are
required only by one untypical setup.
On this place I would like to ask the list members if some one has a
same usecase or would find this feature useful.

Regards
Alex

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