can't ssh to self -amended w/cygcheck

Lex Ein lex_ein@f-m.fm
Sun Jan 22 02:06:00 GMT 2006


Lex Ein wrote:

> After what seemed like a normal May 2005 Cygwin update, my Ohio remote 
> Win2K SP4 machine stopped accepting ssh connections.  For two years up 
> to that point, no Cygwin update interfered with normal SSH operation.
>
> Via a naked VNC connection, in the Cygwin shell, 'ssh -vvv localhost' 
> fails with the error message "ssh_exchange_identification: Connection 
> closed by remote host".  See -vvv output below:
>
> I removed cygwin from the machine and freshly installed (today) the 
> current release of Cygwin and openssh/ssl, cyrunsrv, etc.  Same 
> result.  I have tried with and without ntsec.   sshd does run, it 
> appears in the ps output..
>
> Installation on about six other systems has been trouble-free; each of 
> these successes encouraged me to retry getting the remote system 
> running ssh again.  Every time, failure.
>
> I'm not understanding the clues in man sshd or man ssh or the readmes.
>
> I don't seem to be able to get sshd to generate log entries to 
> /var/log/* as suggested by man sshd.
>
> I'm afraid I need some damn handholding to get this thing running.
>
> $ ssh -vvv localhost
> OpenSSH_4.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8a 11 Oct 2005
> debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
> debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
> debug1: Connecting to localhost [127.0.0.1] port 22.
> debug1: Connection established.
> debug1: identity file /home/NotRevealed/.ssh/identity type -1
> debug3: Not a RSA1 key file /home/NotRevealed/.ssh/id_rsa.
> debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-----BEGIN'
> debug3: key_read: missing keytype
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-----END'
> debug3: key_read: missing keytype
> debug1: identity file /home/NotRevealed/.ssh/id_rsa type 1
> debug3: Not a RSA1 key file /home/NotRevealed/.ssh/id_dsa.
> debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-----BEGIN'
> debug3: key_read: missing keytype
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-----END'
> debug3: key_read: missing keytype
> debug1: identity file /home/NotRevealed/.ssh/id_dsa type 2
> ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
>
> NotRevealed@machine ~
> $
>

Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Sat Jan 21 20:51:15 2006

Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 4

Path:    C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin
    C:\cygwin\bin
    C:\cygwin\bin
    C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin
    c:\WINNT\system32
    c:\WINNT
    c:\WINNT\System32\Wbem
    c:\Program Files\Real\Helix Producer Basic
    C:\cygwin\bin
    C:\cygwin\sbin
    c:\bin
    c:\Novell\Client32
    .\
    c:\PROGRA~1\NETWOR~1\MCAFEE~1

Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (nontsec)
UID: 500(NotRevealed) GID: 513(None)
0(root)                 513(None)               544(NotRevealeds)
545(Users)

Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (ntsec)
UID: 500(NotRevealed) GID: 513(None)
0(root)                 513(None)               544(NotRevealeds)
545(Users)

SysDir: C:\WINNT\system32
WinDir: C:\WINNT

USER = 'NotRevealed'
PWD = '/home/NotRevealed'
CYGWIN = 'ntsec tty'
HOME = '/home/NotRevealed'
MAKE_MODE = 'unix'

HOMEPATH = '\Documents and Settings\NotRevealed'
MANPATH = '/usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/man::/usr/ssl/man'
APPDATA = 'C:\Documents and Settings\NotRevealed\Application Data'
HOSTNAME = 'lamachine'
TERM = 'cygwin'
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER = 'x86 Family 6 Model 6 Stepping 0, GenuineIntel'
WINDIR = 'C:\WINNT'
OLDPWD = '/usr/bin'
USERDOMAIN = 'lamachine'
OS = 'Windows_NT'
ALLUSERSPROFILE = 'C:\Documents and Settings\All Users'
OS2LIBPATH = 'C:\WINNT\system32\os2\dll;'
TEMP = '/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/LOCALS~1/Temp'
COMMONPROGRAMFILES = 'C:\Program Files\Common Files'
USERNAME = 'NotRevealed'
PROCESSOR_LEVEL = '6'
SYSTEMDRIVE = 'C:'
USERPROFILE = 'C:\Documents and Settings\NotRevealed'
PS1 = '\[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\]\u@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$ '
LOGONSERVER = '\\lamachine'
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE = 'x86'
!C: = 'C:\cygwin\bin'
SHLVL = '1'
PATHEXT = '.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH'
HOMEDRIVE = 'C:'
PROMPT = '$P$G'
COMSPEC = 'C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe'
TMP = '/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/LOCALS~1/Temp'
SYSTEMROOT = 'C:\WINNT'
NWLANGUAGE = 'ENGLISH'
CVS_RSH = '/bin/ssh'
PROCESSOR_REVISION = '0600'
INFOPATH = '/usr/local/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/info:'
PROGRAMFILES = 'C:\Program Files'
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS = '1'
COMPUTERNAME = 'lamachine'
_ = '/usr/bin/cygcheck'
POSIXLY_CORRECT = '1'

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2
  (default) = '/cygdrive'
  cygdrive flags = 0x00000022
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/
  (default) = 'C:\cygwin'
  flags = 0x0000000a
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/bin
  (default) = 'C:\cygwin/bin'
  flags = 0x0000000a
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/lib
  (default) = 'C:\cygwin/lib'
  flags = 0x0000000a
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts 
v2\/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
  (default) = 0x0000000a
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options

a:  fd             N/A    N/A                   
c:  hd  FAT32     4102Mb  78% CP    UN          
d:  cd             N/A    N/A                   

C:\cygwin      /          system  binmode
C:\cygwin/bin  /usr/bin   system  binmode
C:\cygwin/lib  /usr/lib   system  binmode
.              /cygdrive  system  binmode,cygdrive

Found: C:\cygwin\bin\awk.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cp.exe
Not Found: cpp (good!)
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\crontab.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe
Not Found: gcc
Not Found: gdb
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\kill.exe
Not Found: ld
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe
Not Found: make
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\mv.exe
Not Found: patch
Not Found: perl
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\rm.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sed.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ssh.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\tar.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\test.exe
Not Found: vi
Not Found: vim

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    Cygwin DLL version info:
        DLL version: 1.5.19
        DLL epoch: 19
        DLL bad signal mask: 19005
        DLL old termios: 5
        DLL malloc env: 28
        API major: 0
        API minor: 150
        Shared data: 4
        DLL identifier: cygwin1
        Mount registry: 2
        Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
        Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
        Program options name: Program Options
        Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
        Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
        Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
        Cygdrive default prefix:
        Build date: Fri Jan 20 13:28:43 EST 2006
        CVS tag: cr-0x5ef
        Shared id: cygwin1S4


Service             : sshd
Display name        : CYGWIN sshd
Current State       : Running
Controls Accepted   : Stop
Command             : /usr/sbin/sshd -D
stdin path          : /dev/null
stdout path         : /var/log/sshd.log
stderr path         : /var/log/sshd.log
Environment         : CYGWIN="ntsec"
Process Type        : Own Process
Startup             : Automatic
Account             : LocalSystem


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