sshd+ssh localhost connects, but don't reach the shell

[Vilar Camara]

Hello again,

> > 1) /var/log/sshd.log is *always* empty (0-byte length);
>
>Normal.  The only thing I see there are errors when I make an error 
>changing
>/etc/sshd_config.
>
>Usually sshd sends messages to the Windows Application Event log.  I'm 
>using
>syslogd-ng so that messages go to /var/log/messages.

That's right, I had looked at it and completely forgot to mention it. But my 
Event Log doesn't add anyting to our discussion: there are only log entries 
saying:
  `sshd' service started
  `sshd' service stopped, exit status: 0
  `sshd' service stopped, exit status: 255
  sshd: PID XXXX: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22
  sshd: PID XXXX: Received signal 15; terminating

I think the exit status may vary because sometimes I stop the service and 
sometimes I kill the process via Task Manager.

> > 3) If I kill all "sshd.exe" processes while ssh is stuck, the client
> > terminates with the message "ssh_exchange_identification: Connection
> > closed by remote host". As I said, this may or may not be clarifying.
> >
> > Does anybody have a clue?
>
>Not yet, could you show the rest of that output? or the end, to see where 
>things
>stopped.

Well, no further output, just a line containing that and then back to the 
shell. Before that there is a lot of debugging messages (mostly complaining 
about ~/.ssh/id_rsa contents), as I've transcribed in my previous post.

>Some ideas: are you running anything on your ~/.profile or equivalent file?

Well, I thought about that. I made a backup of my home directory and tried 
with a completely blank one, but still no success.

>what shell do you use?

bash. By the way, all entries of /etc/passwd point to /bin/bash, except for 
the group entries, "SYSTEM" and "Administradores" (which means 
"Administrators"), which point to no shell.

>can you try a user with a home in an NTFS partition? (I
>don't know if FAT32 is the problem because I don't use that)

Yes, I'll try that. This will require some time because I have to 
repartition my HD, but it worths the try. By the way, should I try a 
complete cygwin installation under NTFS?

>Please keep your replies on the list, the more people that see them the 
>higher
>the probability that someone will spot the problem.

Oops, sorry: I had blindly clicked on "Reply".

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Best regards,
Vilar Camara Neto



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