[SSHD-314] Add support for PTY allocation to ChannelExec

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.11.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.12.0
• Assignee: Guillaume Nodet
• Reporter: Stephen Connolly
• Created: 22/Apr/14 11:00
• Updated: 04/Jun/14 18:33
• Resolved: 04/Jun/14 18:33

Description

See https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1424

OpenSSH does not support sending signals to processes launched via ChannelExec

Currently how people work around this issue via the CLI is to use the -t option to ssh and force a PTY allocation.

The ChannelExec class does not provide a mechanism to force a PTY allocation in the doOpen method prior to the `exec` request being sent over the channel.

This request is to add such support analogous to the methods in ChannelShell

(Pull request with sample implementation to follow...)