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Karl

Hi all,

Hot on the heels of http-proxy support is keyboard-interactive. Download the latest alpha (1.5.4) from:

WAP http://xk72.com/wap/alpha
HTTP http://xk72.com/midpssh/alpha

If password authentication fails MidpSSH will attempt keyboard-interactive authentication. If it spots that a prompt asks for a password it will prefill it with the password you've already entered (if any). To make life easier.

I don't actually have any servers that prompt for more than a password so I'm fascinated to learn how it works from someone that does!

As always, please post results.

Kind regards,
Karl

goetz · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 1:34 pm Post subject:

Nice work, Karl!

I first had to remember to change to SSH2 again. Now it works nicely!
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Cheers,
- Goetz

Karl · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 9:48 pm Post subject:

Yes indeed. I almost went back and added a note that it was SSH 2 only, but I figured that if you knew about keyboard-int you'd be using SSH 2. Of course some people would have just downgraded to SSH 1 to get around it Smile

Glad that's working. Does your server ask for more than a password?

goetz · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 11:49 pm Post subject:

perttu · Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 2

Karl · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:58 am Post subject:

Great, thank you. Do they both appear on the one screen in MidpSSH?

perttu · Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 2

erth64net · Joined: 15 May 2005 Posts: 2

My system is running "SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.4p1" on a pretty standard Debian Linux system, and this works great. Thanks!

edogawaconan · Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 6:53 am Post subject:

my system is SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.8.1p1 FreeBSD-20040419 and at last I'm able to connect there thanks to availability of keyboard interactive support. Thanks a lot

Karl · Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:24 am Post subject:

Fantastic. Thank you all for your feedback. I'm hoping to take this from alpha to beta this weekend Smile

Then we can look at the rest of the TODO!

mattbee · Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Posts: 2

Hi Karl, thanks for this alpha -- it has worked around a weird problem with my O2 XDA (aka Qtek 9000 / HTC Universal, a Windows mobile 5 device).

Basically password authentication doesn't work at all reliably -- I managed to get logged in about 1 time out of every 10 attempts, even when I set my password to something that I couldn't possibly mis-type (I tried 'aaa' out of desperation). The server I used it with should be a pretty popular / obvious one:

SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.8.1p1 Debian-8.sarge.4

Since you've implemented keyboard-interactive, I can type my password in the connection screen, see it fail, then just hit enter with the same password set as default for keyboard-interactive, and have it succeed.

Is this some weird server / FAQ that I've thus far missed? I assumed not because I've had 1.4.0 authenticate me fine, but I couldn't work out what set of circumstances caused it to succeed.

Thanks,

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Matthew

djcarbine · Joined: 19 May 2006 Posts: 1

I am using a 7105t blackberry, and the install went fine. However, I am getting an error that says it can't find the service book entry for IPPP. The earlier version of MIDPSSH works flawlessly though (minus the authentication). Were there any changes regarding the way in which midpssh reaches the network?

headtailgrep · Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 30