ssh keeps connecting until passwd entered -- seems to connect multiple times to host when making a connection

I have been running hotwire-ssh (revision 1299) for a while.
Today someone pointed out to me that it seems to connect many times
to the remove sshd server when running a connection.  Is this a known
issue?

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. run "tail -f /var/log/secure" on remote host
2. ssh to it from hotwire (hotwire-ssh) from another machine

What is the expected output?
plain ssh gives on login:

Aug 21 13:50:05 myserver sshd[5239]: Accepted password for testuser from
10.6.0.22 port 46075 ssh2
Aug 21 13:50:05 myserver sshd[5239]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened
for user testuser by (uid=0)

and then on logout:
Aug 21 13:52:44 myserver sshd[5239]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session closed
for user testuser

What do you see instead?
hotwire ssh gives before logging in and after logging out lots of these:

Aug 21 14:00:14 myserver sshd[5550]: Connection closed by 10.6.0.22
Aug 21 14:00:18 myserver sshd[5553]: Connection closed by 10.6.0.22
Aug 21 14:00:23 myserver sshd[5556]: Connection closed by 10.6.0.22
Aug 21 14:00:27 myserver sshd[5558]: Connection closed by 10.6.0.22
Aug 21 14:00:31 myserver sshd[5562]: Connection closed by 10.6.0.22
Aug 21 14:01:24 myserver sshd[5588]: Connection closed by 10.6.0.22
Aug 21 14:01:28 myserver sshd[5591]: Connection closed by 10.6.0.22

Why does hotwire ssh repeatedly connect to the ssh server?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by juhpeter...@gmail.com on 21 Aug 2008 at 4:06

EmilyDirsh / hotwire-shell

ssh keeps connecting until passwd entered -- seems to connect multiple times to host when making a connection #206