If a sharing downstream asks for an auth method we don't understand,
we should send them CHANNEL_FAILURE *and then stop processing*. Ahem.
(Spotted while examining this code in the course of Coverity-related
fixes, but not itself a Coverity-found problem.)
Without this, doing 'Restart Session' on Windows in a session with
sharing enabled but no actual sharing being done would crash, because
the first incarnation of the session would become an upstream and
establish a listening named pipe, which then wouldn't get cleaned up
when the session closed, so the restarted session would try to connect
to it, triggering a call to plug_accepting on a freed sharestate.
[originally from svn r10216]
The basic strategy is described at the top of the new source file
sshshare.c. In very brief: an 'upstream' PuTTY opens a Unix-domain
socket or Windows named pipe, and listens for connections from other
PuTTYs wanting to run sessions on the same server. The protocol spoken
down that socket/pipe is essentially the bare ssh-connection protocol,
using a trivial binary packet protocol with no encryption, and the
upstream has to do some fiddly transformations that I've been
referring to as 'channel-number NAT' to avoid resource clashes between
the sessions it's managing.
This is quite different from OpenSSH's approach of using the Unix-
domain socket as a means of passing file descriptors around; the main
reason for that is that fd-passing is Unix-specific but this system
has to work on Windows too. However, there are additional advantages,
such as making it easy for each downstream PuTTY to run its own
independent set of port and X11 forwardings (though the method for
making the latter work is quite painful).
Sharing is off by default, but configuration is intended to be very
easy in the normal case - just tick one box in the SSH config panel
and everything else happens automatically.
[originally from svn r10083]