[ale] Buwahahah!!

[Jim Kinney]

I've seen embedded sshd that can't handle ! or * or $. So send huge string
and see what breaks!*$

-- 
James P. Kinney III

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain
at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain


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On Tue, Nov 4, 2025, 4:59 PM lollipopman691 via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Quest Accomplished:  ssh to steam deck
>
> It took me about 2 hours of struggle. I got sshd(8) to answer pretty
> easily, but it wouldn't believe my password. And yeh, I double-checked caps
> lock and retried several times.  The same password worked fine to sudo(8)
> on the internal terminal.  The Net of 10,000 Lies didn't mention this
> trouble anywhere in the plethora of howtos available.
>
> Cue a bunch of fiddling with /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the internal
> terminal, which **majorly** sucks ( NO CTRL KEY!! ). I finally changed the
> "deck" user's password to one without punctuation or special characters.
> For a wonder that did the trick.  I haven't seen this behavior on other
> sshd(8)s.  I guess Valve is just Special.
>
> -- CHS
>
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