Bug 20488

Summary:	sshd default 60 second authentication timeout too low
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Robert Watson <rwatson>
Component:	bin	Assignee:	Kris Kennaway <kris>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	4.1-STABLE
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Robert Watson freebsd_committer

2000-08-08 22:00:00 UTC

On slow networks, the default 60 second timeout for authentication can be too
low to allow a connection to actually take place.  Given that a lot has to
happen in that 60 seconds, high latency or packet loss can prevent negotation
from reaching a useful point.  It is also the case that with a one-time
password scheme with a trusted keying device, additional time is required to
perform the authentication.

Fix: 

Increase default timeout to 120 or more seconds.
How-To-Repeat: 
DUMMYNET

Comment 1 Sheldon Hearn freebsd_committer

2000-08-10 11:05:35 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->kris

Over to the maintainer.

Comment 2 Kris Kennaway freebsd_committer

2000-08-23 10:48:21 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Suggestion applied, thanks.