Comment 18 for bug 293660

Revision history for this message
liquidweaver (joshuaweaver) wrote : Re: [Bug 293660] Re: tsclient always tries to reconnect

I have corrected it - even submitted a patch and was wholly ignored.
Guess I'm not in the club.

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Nogero <email address hidden> wrote:
> Yes, this bug still exists. Another painful bug and security
> vulnerability is that it saves plain text passwords. These critical bugs
> have existed for years and no one wants to correct them. I don't know
> how to program this code but I did I surely would fix it. Tsclient is an
> important application!
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293660
>
> Title:
>  tsclient always tries to reconnect
>
> Status in “tsclient” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: tsclient
>
>  tsclient 0.150-1ubuntu1
>
>  Ubuntu 8.04.1 AMD64 Desktop Linux set 2.6.24-21-generic
>
>  When I connect to a Windows XP box and I choose "log off" my session
>  is closed on the Windows side but soon after tsclient tries to
>  reconnect and re-opens it if I do not stop it, which is rather
>  annoying.
>
>  tsclient should try to re-open a connection only if it dropped because
>  of a network failure and not because the user required to be
>  disconnected.
>
>  I realize it might not be possible to distinguish between the two
>  cases from tsclient, but then at least a check box to disable this
>  behavior should be provided. I would find much less annoying to
>  reconnect on an error than to stop ts from reconnecting each time.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tsclient/+bug/293660/+subscriptions
>