1.7.7: after upgrade lost ability to login via ssh

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

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?

-- 
Larry

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