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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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@ -114,7 +114,8 @@ PacketProtocolLayer *ssh2_userauth_new(
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bool show_banner, bool tryagent, bool notrivialauth,
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const char *default_username, bool change_username,
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bool try_ki_auth, bool try_gssapi_auth, bool try_gssapi_kex_auth,
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bool gssapi_fwd, struct ssh_connection_shared_gss_state *shgss);
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bool gssapi_fwd, struct ssh_connection_shared_gss_state *shgss,
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const char *auth_plugin);
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PacketProtocolLayer *ssh2_connection_new(
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Ssh *ssh, ssh_sharing_state *connshare, bool is_simple,
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Conf *conf, const char *peer_verstring, bufchain *user_input,
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