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Id: 82541
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: Net-SSH2
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: pwood [...] christianbook.com
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Severity: Important
Broken in: 0.33
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Mon Jan 07 15:34:28 2013 pwood [...] christianbook.com - Ticket created
Subject: Cannot configure timeout for auth_publickey
Some methods of Net::SSH2 support a timeout value (namely, poll and connect). However, another situation where a timeout would be valuable is in the auth methods. For example, auth_publickey doesn't have a way to specify a timeout. I'd like to be able to do this, as auth occasionally takes too long and right now it just seems to wait. One recent auth_publickey call took 18.2 seconds to return. I'd like to be able to have it timeout at 2 seconds.
  Mon Jan 07 15:38:00 2013 rkitover [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #82541] Cannot configure timeout for auth_publickey
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 15:37:48 -0500
To: bug-Net-SSH2 [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Rafael Kitover <rkitover [...] gmail.com>
Yeah that sounds reasonable, I'll see if I can do something this weekend. On Monday, January 7, 2013 at 3:34 PM, mtv97rox via RT wrote: Show quoted text
> Some methods of Net::SSH2 support a timeout value (namely, poll and connect). However, > another situation where a timeout would be valuable is in the auth methods. For example, > auth_publickey doesn't have a way to specify a timeout. I'd like to be able to do this, as auth > occasionally takes too long and right now it just seems to wait. One recent auth_publickey call > took 18.2 seconds to return. I'd like to be able to have it timeout at 2 seconds.
  Mon Jan 07 15:38:01 2013 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Sun Aug 23 14:27:07 2015 salva [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Mon Jan 07 15:34:28 2013, cbdpeter wrote: Show quoted text
> Some methods of Net::SSH2 support a timeout value (namely, poll and > connect). However, > another situation where a timeout would be valuable is in the auth > methods. For example, > auth_publickey doesn't have a way to specify a timeout. I'd like to be > able to do this, as auth > occasionally takes too long and right now it just seems to wait. One > recent auth_publickey call > took 18.2 seconds to return. I'd like to be able to have it timeout at > 2 seconds.
That can be done setting the Net::SSH2 object (say $ssh2) to non-blocking mode and then calling the low level authentication method (i.e. auth_publickey) repeatly until it succeeds, or returns an error that is not LIBSSH2_ERROR_EAGAIN or the timeout expires. The underlaying connection socket can be monitored to avoid busy-waiting. In any case, it is not going to be easy :-(
  Mon May 09 10:18:14 2016 salva [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Fixed in the development version.
  Mon May 09 10:18:27 2016 salva [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'