Colin Watson wrote:
Could I impose on you to have a quick look at Debian bug #248125, in which Ctrl-C-ing ssh at the Password: prompt causes several stray processes to remain around, including a zombie sshd? I've been looking through portable Bugzilla for this, and can't find anything, although bug #839 looks somewhat similar (which is why I'm mailing you).
No problem. I'm pretty sure that's this one which was fixed in 3.8.1p1: Log: - (dtucker) [auth-pam.c] Reset signal status when starting pam auth thread, prevent hanging during PAM keyboard-interactive authentications. ok djm@ Members: ChangeLog:1.3274->1.3275 auth-pam.c:1.96->1.97 -- Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au) GPG key 8FF4FA69 / D9A3 86E9 7EEE AF4B B2D4 37C9 C982 80C7 8FF4 FA69 Good judgement comes with experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgement.