Xpra: Ticket #2629: paramiko ssh proxy server does not honour session name

When the client connects with a regular ssh client, we parse the proxy command given and call _run_proxy(channel), eventually creating a SSHSocketConnection from make_ssh_server_connection.

When running a proxy server, we should connect to another server and honour the session name argument which may have been provided as part of the ssh command (ie: _proxy :20).

The difficulty is to keep this connection open (between the client and the xpra _proxy subprocess we probably have to launch) and yet not return a real server connection from may_wrap_socket / handle_ssh_connection.



Sun, 10 May 2020 07:19:46 GMT - Antoine Martin: status, component changed


Thu, 08 Oct 2020 14:52:12 GMT - Antoine Martin: status changed; resolution set

I don't understand what I meant!

We already honour the display specified by the user.

Then connecting with:

xpra attach ssh://localhost:10000/10

And the proxy honours the display we specify (:10):

proxy_session: proxy-virtual-display=:100 (ignored), user specified display=:10, found displays=[':20', ':10']

And since we can't start new sessions via the paramiko ssh server (#2898), the session-name isn't something that is relevant to the proxy.


Sat, 23 Jan 2021 05:56:29 GMT - migration script:

this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/2629