sshnet / sshnet/SSH.NET

Exception when using KeyboardInteractiveAuthenticationMethod if account have no access to shell

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Description

I'm trying to use one of my servers as Socks5 proxy, for this purpose i've created special user with disabled shell access(default shell /sbin/nologin). On connect i got this error:

Message:
"String reference not set to an instance of a String. (Parameter 's')"
Stack trace:
" in Renci.SshNet.KeyboardInteractiveAuthenticationMethod.Authenticate(Session session)\n in Renci.SshNet.AuthenticationMethod.Renci.SshNet.IAuthenticationMethod.Authenticate(ISession session)\n in Renci.SshNet.ClientAuthentication.TryAuthenticate(ISession session, AuthenticationState authenticationState, String[] allowedAuthenticationMethods, SshAuthenticationException& authenticationException)\n in Renci.SshNet.ClientAuthentication.Authenticate(IConnectionInfoInternal connectionInfo, ISession session)\n in Renci.SshNet.ConnectionInfo.Authenticate(ISession session, IServiceFactory serviceFactory)\n in Renci.SshNet.Session.Connect()\n в Renci.SshNet.BaseClient.Connect()\n в test.TargetService.d__12.MoveNext() "

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Start at Renci.SshNet.KeyboardInteractiveAuthenticationMethod.Authenticate, using the provided stack trace and the nologin account scenario to reproduce the failure. Determine how authentication behaves when the account has no shell access; done means the scenario no longer produces the reported String-parameter exception and its resulting behavior is covered by a regression test.

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Tech stack
csharp
Domain
networking
Issue type
Bug
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