Re: [PATCH] Notify clients of PAM error messages

2013-05-13 Thread Martin Donnelly
On 13/05/2013 15:06, Matt Johnston wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the patch. It looks useful, though I plan to > update Dropbear to full PAM handling (with > keyboard-interactive mode) soon, which should handle this > case as well. If I don't get that done I'll put the patch in > the next release. >

Re: [PATCH] Notify clients of PAM error messages

2013-05-13 Thread Matt Johnston
Hi, Thanks for the patch. It looks useful, though I plan to update Dropbear to full PAM handling (with keyboard-interactive mode) soon, which should handle this case as well. If I don't get that done I'll put the patch in the next release. My one concern is how clients might deal with multiple ba

[PATCH] Notify clients of PAM error messages

2013-05-13 Thread Martin Donnelly
This patch adds support for relaying PAM_ERROR_MSG to clients. This is useful when PAM_ERROR_MSG returns meaningful information, an example of this is when pam_nologin is being used and '/etc/nologin' contains a message for clients attempting to connect. -Martin diff -ubNr dropbear-2013.58.orig/au