Re: incidents Digest 22 Feb 2004 13:01:58 -0000 Issue 515

[Adrian.S.Howchin () transport qld gov au]

incidents-digest-help () securityfocus com on 22/02/2004 11:01:58 PM

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Subject:    incidents Digest 22 Feb 2004 13:01:58 -0000 Issue 515

My only thought is the plain obvious stuff, eg. did the user (you attempted
to log in as) have permission to their home directory? I recently found a
similar thing happening to me, although granted this was with VSFTPD, not
openssh...

HTH,
Adrian

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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:45:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Benjamin Franz <snowhare () nihongo org>
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Subject: OpenSSH anomaly
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I'm running a RedHat Enterprise 3 ES server that has been running fairly
reliably for a month. This morning we could not remotely login to the
server via SSH because openssh would terminate the connection immediately
(no delay) after apparently successfully logging in - without giving a
prompt. We are current on patches up to Feb 1 with the exception of the
kernel which is RHES 2.4.21-4.0.1.ELsmp. A console reboot succeeded in
restoring connectivity. We couldn't find any footprints in any log or any
suspicious file activity. No record of the failed logins (we attempted
using both pubkey and password) were in the logs. The openssh version is
RedHat's 3.6.1p2-18.

Has anyone else seen something similiar?

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Benjamin Franz

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                                   ---Wittgenstein








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