Strange behaviour surrounding "ssh -T ..." and non-zero exit

Matt Johnston matt at ucc.asn.au
Wed Nov 14 23:02:03 AWST 2018


Hi Mike,

> On Sat 10/11/2018, at 12:52 am, W. Michael Petullo <mike at flyn.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Here is a more practical example which demonstrates the problem:
> 
> $ echo false | dbclient -T root at host.example.com
> $ echo $?
> 0

I think this should now _really_ be fixed with
https://secure.ucc.asn.au/hg/dropbear/rev/79eef94ccea9

dbclient was ignoring all packets for channels that were in the process of being closed, which included exit status messages.

Cheers,
Matt


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