Call for testing: OpenSSH 7.2

Damien Miller
Wed, 17 Feb 2016 22:34:59 -0000

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.

-d