Re: OpenSSH anomaly

[Will Tipton <tiptonw () neverland ncssm edu>]

This sounds like an issue we had recently.  It turned out that the 
passwords had expired and that openssh is broken as far as dealing with 
it.  If this is the case, as console login should prompt you to change the 
password.  Or, try a chage -l
Will Tipton

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Benjamin Franz wrote:

> 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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