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I remember a discussion to the effect that using DSA keys in sshd increases the requirement for random bits available on the system... and that this requirement (was it a 128 bit random number per connection?) presents security problems on systems that don't have a decent source of entropy? Am I misinterpreting those discussions? We are having a problem deploying sshd (no prngd) where sshd

Over the holidays, I intend to finally rid portable OpenSSH of the builtin entropy collection code. Here's what I intend to do: When init_rng is called, we'll check OpenSSL's RAND_status(). If this indicates that their PRNG is already seeded, we'll do nothing. This effectively detects platforms which have /dev/urandom (or similar) configured into OpenSSL. If OpenSSL isn't

What is autom4te.cache/ and why is it in the snapshot?

Hello - I am trying to use scp (openssh_3.0), but every time I run it, I get the following error: stty: Not a typewriter When I run it with -v , it shows that authentication (pub key) succeeds, but it fails to read the file. If anybody has a clue as to what's going on here, any help will be appreciated. Thanks. Tariq tariq.lahyani at aa.com

Hi, I work on openssh-2.9p2 installed on LynxOS i386 system. sshd, ssh, scp and sftp-server all work fine. The problem is sftp client, in interactive mode, exits after authentication printing the sftp prompt. sftp client works fine in non-interactive mode. i.e., lynxos>sftp hari at linuxsystem:test works fine But, lynxos>sftp hari at linuxsystem ... sftp> lynxos> Any help, as to why

Hi, OpenSSH 2.9p2 behaves differently with 'PermitRootLogin without-password' than does SSH 2.2.27 with 'PermitRootLogin nopwd': nopython.imorgan 153> ssh root at sun523 root at sun523's password: ROOT LOGIN REFUSED FROM nopython.nas.nasa.gov nopython.imorgan 154> ssh root at sun566 root at sun566's password: Permission denied. In the case of OpenSSH, you simply

It appears that "fixpaths" has "/usr/bin/perl" hard-coded in. This causes make to fail immediately after running configure. Ed Ed Phillips <ed at udel.edu> University of Delaware (302) 831-6082 Systems Programmer III, Network and Systems Services finger -l ed at polycut.nss.udel.edu for PGP public key

Hi, I've compiled openssh 3.0p1 (portable) on an openbsd 2.6 machine, compile goes fine however the sshd deamon will not start: > [usura at outpost]:/tmp/openssh-3.0p1 {28}$ ./sshd -p 3333 > bad addr or host: 0.0.0.0 (name or service is not known) > > [usura at outpost]:/tmp/openssh-3.0p1 {29}$ ./sshd -4 -p 3333 > bad addr or host: 0.0.0.0 (name or service is not known) >

In do_authloop() in auth1.c(), the Kerberos 4 and 5 code both allocate, then xfree() the client_user string. The call to do_pam_account() later in the function then tries to use this string, resulting in a corrupt remote user. Finally, before exiting, the function frees client_user again, resulting in a double free and much mess. Patch attached. Cheers, Simon. -- Simon Wilkinson

Hi, There seems to be a problem with the arc4random code on mips/mipsel, producing the following error message: Couldn't obtain random bytes (error 604389476) To quote the bug submitter: "On mips and mipsel, the above error message is frequently seen when calling ssh with a command, usually several times in rapid succession, although that is not always the case. The error appears to

I'm currently upgrading a tool which is a parallelized rsh for a cluster and want to include ssh connection in it. But the ssh code is huge and, as I don't want to loose too much time reading ssh code, I'd like to know if there is in ssh a C-function like rcmd, that opens a ssh connection and give in return a socket descriptor. Thanks -- Wilfrid Billot Laboratoire ID Tel.: 04 76

1) Thank you to whoever makes these available. 2) I have a problem with the SRPMS, they will not --rebuild on a RedHat 6.2 system. Can anyone help me to get this to build here? [root openssh]# rpm --rebuild openssh-3.0.1p1-1.src.rpm Installing openssh-3.0.1p1-1.src.rpm line 74: Unknown tag: 0.9.5a Some Info: [root openssh]# rpm -qa | grep rpm rpm-python-3.0.5-9.6x rpm-build-3.0.5-9.6x

All, I'm attempting to generate a patch for 3.0.2p1. This patch will modify the configure script (and another file); I would like to do it via the configure.ac file. However, when I run 'autoconf ./configure.ac > ./configure.new', I get an unuseable ./configure.new script; both with and without my patch applied (including from a freshly unpacked tarball). Here is the error:

Running "ls" on a large directory (/usr/bin) locks the term when using protocol 2.0. A tilde works to escape the session. Client: OpenSSH_2.9p2 on NetBSD Server: OpenSSH_2.3.0 on FreeBSD Output of ssh -v <FreeBSD host>: OpenSSH_2.9p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090602f debug1: Seeding random number generator debug1: Rhosts Authentication disabled, originating port will

If for some reason (directory missing or permissions bad), it is not possible to cd into either the scards or openbsd-compat direcotries, the make will enter an infinite loop. Correct this by changing the make idiom (cd directory; $(MAKE)) to the idiom (cd directory && $(MAKE)) so that a failure to cd into directory will generate an error for make. The following patch is against the

Hi, all. I'm trying to compile OpenSSH-3.0.2p1 on a Linux libc5 system, and it fails when compiling packet.c with the following: gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wno-uninitialized -I. -I. -DETCDIR=\"/etc/ssh\" -D_PATH_SSH_PROGRAM=\"/usr/bin/ssh\" -D_PATH_SSH_ASKPASS_DEFAULT=\"/usr/libexec/ssh-askpass\" -D_PATH_SFTP_SERVER=\"/usr/libexec/sftp-server\"

Hi All, I just tried to test my web server with telnet. The only problem was that my web server refuses non-encrypted connections (duh!). I know that SSL and SSH are *entirely* different, but ssh is the only commonly-available encryption-enabled command-line tool around. It would be greate to have an SSL-emulation mode in OpenSSH.... Just wishful thinking, Ciaran --

I've been doing so more tests with 2.9.9p2 on Sol8. Here are my finding so far: When a user needs to change his password and trys to run a command in non-interactive mode, it just succeeds without even trying to prompt the user for a new password. Damien submitted a fix - it works for me (is it going into CVS?). When a user needs to change his password and trys to login in interactive

The 2 errors: pam_setcred: error Permission denied Cannot delete credentials[7]: Permission denied Looks to be a major bug in the PAM module for Solaris-2.8/2.7/2.6. Has anyone from the list (developers of OpenSSH, endusers, hackers, etc.) came up w/ a solution? Even a temporary one? When authenticating yourself on the same system that worked, but when authenticating to another system failed. I

Hi, the following patch to contrib/cygwin/ssh-host-config creates /etc/ssh_config and /etc/sshd_config according to the current default config files. Could somebody please check it in? Corinna Index: contrib/cygwin/ssh-host-config =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/openssh_cvs/contrib/cygwin/ssh-host-config,v retrieving revision 1.3 diff -u -p