Bug 528223 - hostssh alias with --bg breaks when "real" ssh is used
Summary: hostssh alias with --bg breaks when "real" ssh is used
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: hotssh
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: Colin Walters
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-10-09 20:56 UTC by John Hein
Modified: 2010-06-28 14:59 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-06-28 14:59:09 UTC
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Description John Hein 2009-10-09 20:56:05 UTC
Description of problem:

When hotssh is installed F10 & F11 define default aliases (csh & sh) for ssh that invoke hotssh with --bg (undocumented option except a comment in the hotssh script itself).

When you do something like 'ssh -i somekey user@host', it fails because the hotssh python script decides to run the "real" ssh, but does not strip off the --bg (which makes openssh die if --bg is the first argument).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

hotssh-0.2.6-1.fc10.noarch
hotssh-0.2.6-2.fc11.noarch


How reproducible:

always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install hotssh
2. start a new shell that picks up the default alias from /etc/profile.d/hotssh.sh or hotssh.csh
3. run "ssh -i /path/to/key user@host"
  
Actual results:

usage: ssh [-1246AaCfgKkMNnqsTtVvXxY] [-b bind_address] [-c cipher_spec]
           [-D [bind_address:]port] [-e escape_char] [-F configfile]
           [-i identity_file] [-L [bind_address:]port:host:hostport]
           [-l login_name] [-m mac_spec] [-O ctl_cmd] [-o option] [-p port]
           [-R [bind_address:]port:host:hostport] [-S ctl_path]
           [-w local_tun[:remote_tun]] [user@]hostname [command]


Expected results:

ssh should attempt to open a connection to 'host'

Additional info:

Bug 477786  (similar, but the fix there doesn't help this problem)

I'm not sure it's useful to have the alias that redefines ssh to hotssh and adds --bg.  If people want to, they can just append '&' (granted not exactly the same as fork + setsid) or use something like the bsd daemon(8) or daemonize(1).

But in any case, it should not be there until the hotssh script can handle it properly (maybe by stripping --bg if calling the "real" ssh similar to how it strips --bg in the "non-real" ssh case?).

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2010-04-28 10:46:29 UTC
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Comment 2 John Hein 2010-05-24 16:36:20 UTC
This was fixed upstream by removing the alias...

http://git.gnome.org/browse/hotssh/commit/?id=e4aeeb6cc1597bb7c518906f04902e601dc7a166

This appears to have been pulled into Fedora 12, but not Fedora 11.

Comment 3 John Hein 2010-05-24 16:41:49 UTC
Also see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577801

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2010-06-28 14:59:09 UTC
Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
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