Re: lsh December 11

[Niels M�ller]

Balazs Scheidler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> if you have shadow passwords installed and not running the server as root,
> it won't be able to read /etc/shadow -> sends an authentication failure,
> which the client doesn't understand.

That makes sense. I have noticed earlier that lsh will only ask for the
password once, and not let me retry like it is supposed to do, but I
didn't investigate that. Broken handling of user authentication
failures (on either the server or the client side) would explain that.

/Niels