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-rw-r--r--lib/ssh/doc/src/notes.xml242
-rw-r--r--lib/ssh/doc/src/ssh.xml31
-rw-r--r--lib/ssh/doc/src/ssh_connection.xml59
-rw-r--r--lib/ssh/doc/src/ssh_sftp.xml13
4 files changed, 329 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/lib/ssh/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/ssh/doc/src/notes.xml
index bce02966ae..f3db05192e 100644
--- a/lib/ssh/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/lib/ssh/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2004</year><year>2013</year>
+ <year>2004</year><year>2014</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -29,6 +29,246 @@
<file>notes.xml</file>
</header>
+<section><title>Ssh 3.0.8</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fixes of login blocking after port scanning.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12247 Aux Id: seq12726 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Ssh 3.0.7</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Add option sftp_vsn to SFTP</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12227</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix option user_interaction to work as expected. When
+ password authentication is implemented with ssh
+ keyboard-interactive method and the password is already
+ supplied, so that we do not need to query user, then
+ connections should succeed even though user_interaction
+ option is set to false.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-11329 Aux Id: seq12420, seq12335 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Ssh 3.0.6</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Gracefully handle bad data from the client when expecting
+ ssh version exchange.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12157 Aux Id: seq12706 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ When restarting an ssh daemon, that was stopped with
+ ssh:stop_listner/ [1,2] new options given shall replace
+ old ones.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12168 Aux Id: seq12711 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ ssh now has a format_status function to avoid printing
+ sensitive information in error loggs.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12030</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Known Bugs and Problems</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The option <c>parallel_login</c> didn't work with the
+ value <c>true</c>. All logins were serial.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12194</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Ssh 3.0.5</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ When starting an ssh-daemon giving the option
+ {parallel_login, true}, the timeout for authentication
+ negotiation ({negotiation_timeout, integer()}) was never
+ removed.</p>
+ <p>
+ This caused the session to always be terminated after the
+ timeout if parallel_login was set.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12057 Aux Id: seq12663 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Warning: this is experimental and may disappear or change
+ without previous warning.</p>
+ <p>
+ Experimental support for running Quickcheck and PropEr
+ tests from common_test suites is added to common_test.
+ See the reference manual for the new module
+ <c>ct_property_testing</c>.</p>
+ <p>
+ Experimental property tests are added under
+ <c>lib/{inet,ssh}/test/property_test</c>. They can be run
+ directly or from the commont_test suites
+ <c>inet/ftp_property_test_SUITE.erl</c> and
+ <c>ssh/test/ssh_property_test_SUITE.erl</c>.</p>
+ <p>
+ See the code in the <c>test</c> directories and the man
+ page for details.</p>
+ <p>
+ (Thanks to Tuncer Ayaz for a patch adding Triq)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12119</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Ssh 3.0.4</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ When starting an ssh-daemon giving the option
+ {parallel_login, true}, the timeout for authentication
+ negotiation ({negotiation_timeout, integer()}) was never
+ removed.</p>
+ <p>
+ This caused the session to always be terminated after the
+ timeout if parallel_login was set.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12057 Aux Id: seq12663 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Ssh 3.0.3</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Removed mail address from error reports and corrected
+ spelling error (Stacktace -&gt; stacktrace)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-11883 Aux Id: seq12586 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Decode/encode fixes in SSH_MSG_IGNORE and
+ SSH_MSG_UNIMPLEMENTED.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-11983</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Accepts that some older OpenSSH clients sends incorrect
+ disconnect messages.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-11972</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Handle inet and inet6 option correctly</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-11976</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Ssh 3.0.2</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fixed timeout bug in ssh:connect.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-11908</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Option <c>max_sessions</c> added to
+ <c>ssh:daemon/{2,3}</c>. This option, if set, limits the
+ number of simultaneous connections accepted by the
+ daemon.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-11885</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Ssh 3.0.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
diff --git a/lib/ssh/doc/src/ssh.xml b/lib/ssh/doc/src/ssh.xml
index 7fbd70c87e..9f5d1c003d 100644
--- a/lib/ssh/doc/src/ssh.xml
+++ b/lib/ssh/doc/src/ssh.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2004</year><year>2013</year>
+ <year>2004</year><year>2014</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@
<list type="bulleted">
<item>SSH requires the crypto and public_key applications.</item>
<item>Supported SSH version is 2.0 </item>
- <item>Supported MAC algorithms: hmac-sha1</item>
- <item>Supported encryption algorithms: aes128-cb and 3des-cbc</item>
+ <item>Supported MAC algorithms: hmac-sha2-256 and hmac-sha1</item>
+ <item>Supported encryption algorithms: aes128-ctr, aes128-cb and 3des-cbc</item>
<item>Supports unicode filenames if the emulator and the underlaying OS supports it. See the DESCRIPTION section in <seealso marker="kernel:file">file</seealso> for information about this subject</item>
<item>Supports unicode in shell and cli</item>
</list>
@@ -97,6 +97,8 @@
<seealso marker="ssh_connection#session_channel/2">ssh_connection:session_channel/[2, 4]</seealso>.</p>
<p>Options are:</p>
<taglist>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[{inet, inet | inet6}]]></c></tag>
+ <item> IP version to use.</item>
<tag><c><![CDATA[{user_dir, string()}]]></c></tag>
<item>
<p>Sets the user directory i.e. the directory containing
@@ -230,6 +232,8 @@
port.</p>
<p>Options are:</p>
<taglist>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[{inet, inet | inet6}]]></c></tag>
+ <item> IP version to use when the host address is specified as <c>any</c>. </item>
<tag><c><![CDATA[{subsystems, [subsystem_spec()]]]></c></tag>
<item>
Provides specifications for handling of subsystems. The
@@ -307,18 +311,31 @@
<tag><c><![CDATA[{negotiation_timeout, integer()}]]></c></tag>
<item>
- <p>Max time in milliseconds for the authentication negotiation. The default value is 2 minutes.
+ <p>Max time in milliseconds for the authentication negotiation. The default value is 2 minutes. If the client fails to login within this time, the connection is closed.
+ </p>
+ </item>
+
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[{max_sessions, pos_integer()}]]></c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>The maximum number of simultaneous sessions that are accepted at any time for this daemon. This includes sessions that are being authorized. So if set to <c>N</c>, and <c>N</c> clients have connected but not started the login process, the <c>N+1</c> connection attempt will be aborted. If <c>N</c> connections are authenticated and still logged in, no more loggins will be accepted until one of the existing ones log out.
+ </p>
+ <p>The counter is per listening port, so if two daemons are started, one with <c>{max_sessions,N}</c> and the other with <c>{max_sessions,M}</c> there will be in total <c>N+M</c> connections accepted for the whole ssh application.
+ </p>
+ <p>Note that if <c>parallel_login</c> is <c>false</c>, only one client at a time may be in the authentication phase.
+ </p>
+ <p>As default, the option is not set. This means that the number is not limited.
</p>
</item>
<tag><c><![CDATA[{parallel_login, boolean()}]]></c></tag>
<item>
- <p>If set to false (the default value), only one login is handled a time. If set to true, an unlimited logins will be allowed simultanously. Note that this affects only the connections with authentication in progress, not the already authenticated connections.
+ <p>If set to false (the default value), only one login is handled a time. If set to true, an unlimited number of login attempts will be allowed simultanously.
+ </p>
+ <p>If the <c>max_sessions</c> option is set to <c>N</c> and <c>parallel_login</c> is set to <c>true</c>, the max number of simultaneous login attempts at any time is limited to <c>N-K</c> where <c>K</c> is the number of authenticated connections present at this daemon.
</p>
<warning>
- <p>Do not enable parallel_logins without protecting the server by other means like a firewall. If set to true, there is no protection against dos attacs.</p>
+ <p>Do not enable <c>parallel_logins</c> without protecting the server by other means, for example the <c>max_sessions</c> option or a firewall configuration. If set to <c>true</c>, there is no protection against DOS attacks.</p>
</warning>
-
</item>
<tag><c><![CDATA[{key_cb, atom()}]]></c></tag>
diff --git a/lib/ssh/doc/src/ssh_connection.xml b/lib/ssh/doc/src/ssh_connection.xml
index 72e7252536..ff72cf7ee0 100644
--- a/lib/ssh/doc/src/ssh_connection.xml
+++ b/lib/ssh/doc/src/ssh_connection.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
<header>
<copyright>
<year>2008</year>
- <year>2013</year>
+ <year>2014</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB, All Rights Reserved</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
<tag><c><![CDATA[{pty, ssh_channel_id(),
boolean() = WantReply, {string() = Terminal, integer() = CharWidth,
- integer() = RowHeight, integer() = PixelWidth, integer() = PixelHight,
+ integer() = RowHeight, integer() = PixelWidth, integer() = PixelHeight,
[{atom() | integer() = Opcode,
integer() = Value}] = TerminalModes}}]]></c></tag>
<item>A pseudo-terminal has been requested for the
@@ -148,11 +148,11 @@
drawable area of the window. The <c>Opcode</c> in the
<c>TerminalModes</c> list is the mnemonic name, represented
as an lowercase erlang atom, defined in
- <url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4254.txt">RFC 4254 </url> section 8,
- or the opcode if the mnemonic name is not listed in the
+ <url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4254.txt">RFC 4254 </url> section 8.
+ It may also be an opcode if the mnemonic name is not listed in the
RFC. Example <c>OP code: 53, mnemonic name ECHO erlang atom:
- echo</c>. There is currently no API function to generate this
- event.</item>
+ echo</c>.This event is sent as result of calling <seealso
+ marker="ssh_connection#ptty_alloc/4">ssh_connection:ptty_alloc/4</seealso></item>
<tag><c><![CDATA[{shell, boolean() = WantReply}]]></c></tag>
<item> This message will request that the user's default shell
@@ -273,7 +273,52 @@
</desc>
</func>
- <func>
+ <func>
+ <name>ptty_alloc(ConnectionRef, ChannelId, Options, Timeout) -> success | failure</name>
+ <fsummary>Send status replies to requests that want such replies. </fsummary>
+ <type>
+ <v> ConnectionRef = ssh_connection_ref() </v>
+ <v> ChannelId = ssh_channel_id()</v>
+ <v> Options = proplists:proplist()</v>
+ </type>
+ <desc>
+ <p> Sends a SSH Connection Protocol pty_req, to allocate a pseudo tty.
+ Should be called by a SSH client process.
+ Options are:
+ </p>
+
+ <taglist>
+ <tag>{term, string()}</tag>
+ <item>
+ Defaults to os:getenv("TERM") or "vt100" if it is undefined.
+ </item>
+ <tag>{width, integer()}</tag>
+ <item>
+ Defaults to 80 if pixel_width is not defined.
+ </item>
+ <tag>{height, integer()}</tag>
+ <item>
+ Defaults to 24 if pixel_height is not defined.
+ </item>
+ <tag>{pixel_width, integer()}</tag>
+ <item>
+ Is disregarded if width is defined.
+ </item>
+ <tag>{pixel_height, integer()}</tag>
+ <item>
+ Is disregarded if height is defined.
+ </item>
+ <tag>{pty_opts, [{posix_atom(), integer()}]}</tag>
+ <item>
+ Option may be an empty list, otherwise
+ see possible POSIX names in section 8 in <url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4254.txt"> RFC 4254</url>.
+ </item>
+ </taglist>
+
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+
+ <func>
<name>reply_request(ConnectionRef, WantReply, Status, ChannelId) -> ok</name>
<fsummary>Send status replies to requests that want such replies. </fsummary>
<type>
diff --git a/lib/ssh/doc/src/ssh_sftp.xml b/lib/ssh/doc/src/ssh_sftp.xml
index e55d092fe2..f1091e9eca 100644
--- a/lib/ssh/doc/src/ssh_sftp.xml
+++ b/lib/ssh/doc/src/ssh_sftp.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2005</year><year>2013</year>
+ <year>2005</year><year>2014</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -81,6 +81,17 @@
<p>The timeout is passed to the ssh_channel start function,
and defaults to infinity.</p>
</item>
+ <tag>
+ <p><c><![CDATA[{sftp_vsn, integer()}]]></c></p>
+ </tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Desired SFTP protocol version.
+ The actual version will be the minimum of
+ the desired version and the maximum supported
+ versions by the SFTP server.
+ </p>
+ </item>
</taglist>
<p>All other options are directly passed to
<seealso marker="ssh">ssh:connect/3</seealso> or ignored if a