X2Go Bug report logs - #966
x2goclient SSH fails with keyboard-interactive + banner

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Package: x2goclient; Maintainer for x2goclient is X2Go Developers <x2go-dev@lists.x2go.org>; Source for x2goclient is src:x2goclient.

Reported by: Andrew Cherry <acherry@alcf.anl.gov>

Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 17:05:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: pending

Found in version 4.0.5.1

Fixed in version 4.1.1.0

Done: X2Go Release Manager X2Go Release Manager <git-admin@x2go.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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I've done some additional testing, prompted by your mention of the banner being configured using the Banner option in sshd_config.  It turns out we are *not* using the sshd config option -- instead, we are displaying the banner using the pam_echo module, configured with the following line in /etc/pam.d/sshd:

auth        optional    pam_echo.so file=/etc/issue.net

What I've found so far is that the same /etc/issue.net plays nice with x2go when configured via the Banner option, but causes an auth failure when configured using pam_echo.so.

I'm going to do some more digging to see if I can figure out what the difference is.  Oddly, if I cut/paste the output from the OpenSSH client (on Linux) up to and including the Password: prompt, and do a diff between the two, they are byte-for-byte identical.

By the way, the reason we use pam_echo.so instead of the Banner option is because we actually have two banners -- /etc/issue/net for the standard security boilerplate which is always displayed, and /etc/issue.alcf which is normally empty but is populated with information during our scheduled maintenance windows when logins are disabled.  However, I've confirmed that the problem still occurs even if I configure pam_echo.so to only display /etc/issue.net

-Andrew

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