SSH Tunnel Login only allows 8 character passwords

[Harrison Neal]

Binary package hint: vinagre

The SSH Tunnel Login Dialog in Vinagre, similar to the Password Dialog in the same, only allows for passwords to be entered up to 8 characters. While this should be done for the standard password dialog as per the VNC protocol, the SSH protocol has no such restriction and users should be able to login to the SSH host with a password longer than 8 characters.

Expected: The SSH Tunnel Login Dialog would allow me to enter my full password for the remote SSH host used to tunnel the VNC connection.
Actual: I was only able to enter 8 characters.

Ubuntu 10.04, Vinagre 2.30.1-0ubuntu1

[oger000 (oger000-deactivatedaccount)]

A quick patch. May be the chosen lenght is high, but for ssh-passwords there should be "no" restriction and even if there is a length-restriction for passwords in the vnc protocol it does not hurt if a client accept longer passwords. It is the business of the server to check that only protocol-conform passwords can be set.

[Jonh Wendell (wendell)]

Hi. This patch is wrong. Anyway, this is fixed upstream some time ago: http://git.gnome.org/browse/vinagre/commit/?id=e0721cd7c31291142117ec39da75d48ec4940db8

Also, see bug #483696

[oger000 (oger000-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello

Just for curiosity and to learn for the future: Whats wrong with the patch? Formal failures?
It works for me here - and did not before the patch.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

sru team, the debdiff for the lucid update is on bug #594746

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package vinagre - 2.30.2-0ubuntu1.1

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vinagre (2.30.2-0ubuntu1.1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream version
    - Removed password length limit for SSH connections (lp: #588532)
    - Allows using of an alternative ssh port when doing tunnel
      (lp: #594746)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:53:47 +0200

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Reproduced the bug with the package on Lucid and i can confirm that the proposed one fixes the bug, marking this as verification done, thanks all.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package vinagre - 2.30.2-0ubuntu1

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vinagre (2.30.2-0ubuntu1) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream version
    - Removed password length limit for SSH connections (lp: #588532)
    - Allows using of an alternative ssh port when doing tunnel
      (lp: #594746)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:25:44 +0200