Re: [libvirt] problems with remote authentication with policykit

I wrote: > > Ok, this bit definitely sounds like a server side bug, unless > > perhaps there is some buffering taking place in ssh or nc > > causing the errore reply packet to not be send back promptly > > I'll try to get some better traces of what's going on here. The error is getting back to the client. On the client, remoteAuthenticate does fail and return -1. The client then ends up blocked in the waitpid at remote_internal.c:877: 865 failed: 866 /* Close the socket if we failed. */ 867 if (priv->sock >= 0) { 868 if (priv->uses_tls && priv->session) { 869 gnutls_bye (priv->session, GNUTLS_SHUT_RDWR); 870 gnutls_deinit (priv->session); 871 } 872 close (priv->sock); 873 #ifndef WIN32 874 if (priv->pid > 0) { 875 pid_t reap; 876 do { 877 reap = waitpid(priv->pid, NULL, 0); 878 if (reap == -1 && errno == EINTR) 879 continue; 880 } while (reap != -1 && reap != priv->pid); 881 } 882 #endif 883 } Nothing gets printed up until this point, which is why there's no output. I guess the client is waiting for SSH to die, which isn't happening for some reason. That must be a bug on the server side, although the client should also probably be more robust in this case..