Call for testing: OpenSSH 7.2

Hisashi T Fujinaka
Wed, 17 Feb 2016 23:01:16 -0000

On Thu, 18 Feb 2016, Damien Miller wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Feb 2016, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
>
>>> I need to make these error messages more user-friendly :(
>>>
>>> -24 is SSH_ERR_SYSTEM_ERROR, so it's likely failing to
find/load the
>>> key for some reason. I'll make a patch to improve the error
message,
>>> but in the meantime you could probably figure out the exact failure
>>> using ktrace/ktruss/strace and/or digging errno out of the core
file.
>>
>> Do I have to fish the actual invocation of test_hostkeys from somewhere
>> too?
>
> Probably not, if you ktrace or similar you need only look for the
> last failing syscall (probably open) before the output of the error
> message.

More stupidity on my part. A "make distclean" fixed things on my
NetBSD-7 box. Unfortunately, the test crashed NetBSD-current.

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