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2001 Oct 10
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ssh exit mechanism!
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I use putty-0.51 as ssh client on windows and
openssh-2.9p2 implementation on RedHat 7.0 Linux as
ssh server. For the client to exit, I expected ssh
client to send SSH_CMSG_EOF to the server and the
server respond with SSH_CMSG_EXITSTATUS and finally
close the connection when the client sends
SSH_CMSG_EXIT_CONFIRMATION. This will effectively end
the server_loop in the server. This would close the
connection in a cleaner way. Although the RFC has
stated that either side may send SSH_MSG_DISCONNECT,
for immediate disconnect, I am surprised that this is
the normal exit method used in putty implementation.
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