H.6.7 PLUGIN_KI_SERVER_REQUEST

Direction: client to plugin

When: sent after PLUGIN_PROTOCOL, or after a previous PLUGIN_KI_SERVER_RESPONSE, when the SSH server has sent SSH_MSG_USERAUTH_INFO_REQUEST

What happens next: the plugin will send either PLUGIN_KI_USER_REQUEST or PLUGIN_KI_SERVER_RESPONSE

Message contents after the type code: the exact contents of the SSH_MSG_USERAUTH_INFO_REQUEST just sent by the server. See [RFC4256] section 3.2 for details. The summary:

• string: name of this prompt collection (e.g. to use as a dialog-box title)
• string: instructions to be displayed before this prompt collection
• string: language tag (deprecated)
• uint32: number of prompts in this collection
• That many copies of:
  • string: prompt (in UTF-8)
  • boolean: whether the response to this prompt is safe to echo to the screen