sshd problem with recent snapshots

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Nov 15 11:40, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:18:57AM -0500, Ken Brown wrote:
> >On 11/15/2010 11:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> On Nov 13 10:00, Ken Brown wrote:
> >>> On 11/5/2010 8:03 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> >>>> If I start sshd on a machine running a recent snapshot, I'm unable to
> >>>> login to that machine via ssh.  The connection is closed right after I
> >>>> type my password.  The problem first appears in the snapshot of
> >>>> 20100917.  To reproduce:
> >>>>
> >>>> 1. Start sshd.
> >>>>
> >>>> 2. While logged in as one user, try to login as another user.  For example:
> >>>>
> >>>> $ ssh kbrown-admin@localhost
> >>>> kbrown-admin@localhost's password:
> >>>> Connection to localhost closed by remote host.
> >>>> Connection to localhost closed.
> >>>>
> >>>> The same thing happens if I try to ssh in from a different machine on
> >>>> the network.
> >>>
> >>> Further information:  There are two entries in the Windows Event
> >>> Viewer (Application Log) after the failed login:
> >>>
> >>> sshd: PID 2264: Accepted password for kbrown-admin from ::1 port 1025 ssh2.
> >>>
> >>> sshd: PID 2264: fatal: chmod(/dev/tty1, 0622) failed: Permission denied.
> >>
> >> Hmm, that's weird.  I'm using the latest Cygwin from CVS, and I cannot
> >> reproduce this.  I tried to login from a remote machine with pubkey and
> >> password authentication using an admin account as well as a normal user
> >> account.  Works fine for me in all these cases.
> >>
> >> I can't quite believe it, but maybe that's OS related.  I'm running my
> >> tests on W7 in the first place.  What OS are you using?
> >
> >XP SP3.
> 
> FWIW, I couldn't duplicate this on XP SP3 but my ssh installation was a
> little nonstandard.  I ended up breaking ssh entirely over the weekend
> so I'm looking for a random helpful blog to help me diagnose the
> problem.
> 
> But, seriously, I'll check this as soon as I get things back to a running
> state.

What I don't grok is that this should start with the 20100917 snapshot,
but works with 20100912.  There's nothing in the 09-17 ChangeLog which
would be related.


Corinna

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