ssh wish list?

Björn Lässig
2023-10-24T07:41:28Z

Hey Chris,

On Wed, 2023-10-18 at 13:13 -0400, Chris Rapier wrote:
> Do any of you have a wish list of things you'd like to see in ssh?

Meanwhile, a lot of parts have to work together for SSH to work as
desired: ssh-client, ssh-agent, gpg-agent, scdaemon, sshd, pam, ....

As an admin who works with SSH all day in a company whose employees do
everything via SSH, I would like to see better debug options in the
entire stack with the long-term goal of being able to evaluate them
automatically with some data format (json, yaml). Sshd and ssh-agent
cannot be switched to 'debug' mode afterwards without shooting yourself
in the foot.

It would be nice if there were better ways to find out why something
didn't work. For example, we've had corporate firewalls that discarded
certain handshake packets and it was really hard to get the idea of
what was going wrong in the first place.

ESC~#

B?rn L?ssig