Re: 1.7.7: after upgrade lost ability to login via ssh

[Gerry Reno <greno at verizon dot net>]

On 02/08/2011 11:07 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 2/8/2011 9:14 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:
>> Something else I just discovered after upgrading to 1.7.7 is that I now
>> have lost the ability to login via ssh.
>>
>> I have OpenSSH installed and running sshd as a service.  Both password
>> and keys accepted.  But now neither means will work.
>>
>>      # ssh -i keypair1.pem   Administrator@MACHINE_IP
>>      Last login: Fri Feb  4 17:19:26 2011 from LOCAL_CLIENT_MACHINE
>>      Connection to MACHINE_IP closed.
>>
>>
>> So I increased verbosity but did not see anything obvious.
>>
>>
>>      # ssh -v -i keypair1.pem   Administrator@MACHINE_IP
>>      OpenSSH_5.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8k-fips 25 Mar 2009
>>      debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
>>      debug1: Applying options for *
>>      debug1: Connecting to MACHINE_IP [MACHINE_IP] port 22.
>>      debug1: Connection established.
>>      debug1: permanently_set_uid: 0/0
>>      debug1: identity file keypair1.pem type -1
>>      debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version
>> OpenSSH_5.8
>
> Does reverting OpenSSH to 5.7 make a difference?
>

Downgraded to 5.7:

    bash-4.1$ sshd --version
    sshd: unknown option -- -
    OpenSSH_5.7p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011


>From client:

    ssh -i keypair1.pem   Administrator@MACHINE_IP
    Last login: Wed Feb  9 12:54:08 2011 from LOCAL_CLIENT_IP
    Connection to MACHINE_IP closed.


Nope.  Still have the same problem.  Connection is made but immediately
closes.


Regards,
Gerry





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