Bug#580323: ssh tunnel feature sort-of useless

[Evgeni Golov]

Package: vinagre
Version: 2.30.1-1
Severity: important

[ important as I think ssh-tunneling of vnc is an important feature,
  feel free to degrade if you think different ]

Hi,

after #579693 being solved, I wanted to try ssh-tunneling with vinagre to one of
my vnc hosts.

The first try hung for a while, before spitting out an authentication timeout.
Retrying the connection, I noticed vinagre asks for a ssh password, but my host
prefers pubkey authentication. After disabling the pubkey, the hang disappeared,
but vinagre still failed to authenticate. Looking even stronger on the password
window, I noticed that it does not accept the last char of my password (which
is 9 chars long). So I changed the password to something shorter and voila,
vinagre could authenticate and I saw my vnc screen.

Thus we have two authentication bugs here:
1. vinagre fails to detect (and use) pubkey auth
2. vinagre only accepts passwords up to 8 chars

Both make the ssh tunneling feature quite useless, at least for me, as I neither
want to miss pubkeys (some of my hosts even do not allow anything else) nor
change the passwords to weak/short ones.

Regards
Evgeni Golov

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-rc6-x201s-1 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages vinagre depends on:
ii  gconf2                      2.28.1-3     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.30.0-1     The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libavahi-common3            0.6.25-3     Avahi common library
ii  libavahi-gobject0           0.6.25-3     Avahi GObject library
ii  libavahi-ui0                0.6.25-3     Avahi GTK+ User interface library
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.24.3-1     Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                       2.10.2-7     Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2                   1.8.10-4     The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.2.24-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.86-1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1              2.8.0-2.1    generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6                2.3.11-1     FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.28.1-3     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.24.1-1     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0           2.30.1-1     GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnutls26                 2.8.6-1      the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgtk-vnc-1.0-0            0.3.10-6     A VNC viewer widget for GTK+ (runt
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.20.1-1     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpanel-applet2-0          2.28.0-3+b1  library for GNOME Panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.28.0-1     Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libtelepathy-glib0          0.11.4-1     Telepathy framework - GLib library
ii  libvte9                     1:0.24.1-1   Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.3.3-3    X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                     2.7.7.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library

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