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New feature: k-i authentication helper plugins.

In recent months I've had two requests from different people to build
support into PuTTY for automatically handling complicated third-party
auth protocols layered on top of keyboard-interactive - the kind of
thing where you're asked to enter some auth response, and you have to
refer to some external source like a web server to find out what the
right response _is_, which is a pain to do by hand, so you'd prefer it
to be automated in the SSH client.

That seems like a reasonable thing for an end user to want, but I
didn't think it was a good idea to build support for specific
protocols of that kind directly into PuTTY, where there would no doubt
be an ever-lengthening list, and maintenance needed on all of them.

So instead, in collaboration with one of my correspondents, I've
designed and implemented a protocol to be spoken between PuTTY and a
plugin running as a subprocess. The plugin can opt to handle the
keyboard-interactive authentication loop on behalf of the user, in
which case PuTTY passes on all the INFO_REQUEST packets to it, and
lets it make up responses. It can also ask questions of the user if
necessary.

The protocol spec is provided in a documentation appendix. The entire
configuration for the end user consists of providing a full command
line to use as the subprocess.

In the contrib directory I've provided an example plugin written in
Python. It gives a set of fixed responses suitable for getting through
Uppity's made-up k-i system, because that was a reasonable thing I
already had lying around to test against. But it also provides example
code that someone else could pick up and insert their own live
response-provider into the middle of, assuming they were happy with it
being in Python.
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Simon Tatham
2022-09-01 19:38:46 +01:00
parent 1f32a16dc8
commit 15f097f399
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${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/udp.but
${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/pgpkeys.but
${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/sshnames.but
${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/authplugin.but
${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/index.but
${VERSION_BUT})