Guys, This is more a limitation of the implementation than a bug and is well known by the developers. The problem stems from the fact that all LDM does is wrap around an ssh call, and ssh lacks a proper library to interact with it in a more meaningful way. Basically, LDM collects the username and password you give it, runs "ssh ... u...@server", waits for a response with a ":" (because scraping a password prompt varies by language), feeds the password, and hopes to connect. If the connection fails, LDM really has no clue if it is because you typed in the wrong password or you could not connect to the server for some other reason. You are simply denied.
There have been many different attempts on the development side to fix this in a language-independent way. There has been some work with a rather new library called "libssh", there has been work on restructuring LDM, etc, etc. I know that Scotty (sbalneav) was leading the charge in this area, but I also know that he has been pulled away in other directions and has had less time to work on LTSP. This is one of those "annoyances" that needs some good developer time to sort out properly. Unfortunately, developer time for such things is more scarce these days. Hope that clears up why this happens, and consider it a call for more brains on deck. -Gadi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;226879339;13503038;l? http://clk.atdmt.com/CRS/go/247765532/direct/01/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
