On Wednesday 28 July 2010 23:55:15 [email protected] wrote: > > 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. > > I really appreciate the feedback Gadi! I suppose an interim solution might > be a different error message e.g. "authentication failure", which would > be true in either case and more intuitive in the vast majority of cases > where it is simply a password issue.
No it is not. Read what Gadi said. If you could issue a message, you could rule the world (re-login etc) The problem is you don't know if something went wrong hence the call for more brains on deck James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _____________________________________________________________________ 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
