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The story of this problem, AFAIK, is that Solaris 8 YASSP and JASS and vigilant/paranoid sysadmins have been known to set a restricitve umask in /etc/default/login. OpenSSH compatibility for Solaris 8 has been spotty at times for sparcv9 targets. This time, when a sparcv9 binary tries to sscanf(3C) the numeric umask as a long octal and put it in a mode_t, SIGBUS happens. What this looks like in real life is: You are running a 64...