Patch is here: https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2745 A few years back, there was discussion on the mailing list about adding server name indication (SNI) support to SSH by fiddling with the version banner exchange at the very beginning of the protocol exchange, before the encrypted channel is created. SNI, if you don't remember, is the feature that allows multiple websites to be hosted on a single webserver as "virtual hosts". SNI sends the hostname during the unencrypted header exchange to support virtual hosts over HTTPS. Daniel Gillmor at the time suggested that if this was to be done for OpenSSH, using the VersionAddendum mechanism might be a good way to do it: https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2013-November/031811.html This patch does that. For example, a user might want to do ssh -oVersionAddendum=X-Host:realhost.site.com sharedIpAddr.site.com With the patch, someone who wanted to put in place a quick proxy running on port 22 of sharedIpAddr.site.com that looked for a string like X-Host:realhost.site.com could then proxy the connection to realhost.site.com. The patch supports '%h' per Daniel's suggestion, so you can do: ssh -oVersionAddendum=Host:%h server.example.net or just put VersionAddendum in your configuration file. The caveats that Daniel warned about in 2013 are still true - this may not be something an admin wants to turn on by default so you're not leaking the actual host you're connecting to over the unencrypted banner exchange (though if you have a shared secret with the proxy you could encrypt the host string). Also, because the banner strings are used as part of the key exchange if the proxy sends something different than what the actual end host sends key exchange will fail. I largely copied the code from how the server side handles VersionAddendum. The big change is that I passed around the 'host' variable in ssh_connect.c so the %h expansion would work when the banner string is actually constructed - if there's a global I could read from I wouldn't need to change the calls up the stack. Other expansions don't work, like %u or %p, because the data for those are not passed along right now. I didn't add anything to ssh_api.c - it doesn't look like that file uses the config settings so I don't think VersionAddendum would get picked up there, but maybe I'm not reading it right. If it's easier for folks to read or use, this patch is in the client_version_addendum branch here: https://github.com/epaulson/openssh-portable/commit/69daef3b8a99d6c85f357f200c4aaa06fe28eaff SNI is my use case, but other use cases where having some additional headers early in the protocol might be out there and this could be a way to help prototype them. Thanks! -Erik _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
