Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:37:43 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org> To: Dan Debertin <airboss@bitstream.net> Cc: <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: wierd ssh failure Message-ID: <14961.57367.549780.51395@localhost.zuhause.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0101261427250.18352-100000@dmitri.bitstream.net> References: <14961.56948.936058.387747@localhost.zuhause.org> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0101261427250.18352-100000@dmitri.bitstream.net>
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Dan Debertin writes: > On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Bruce Albrecht wrote: > > I forgot to mention that I'm running 4.2-stable (circa last week). > > When I ran strings on sshd, I couldn't find the message that I got > > from ssh, which is why I'm wondering if this was a temporary routing > > error, or an attempt to do a man-in-the-middle attack. > > Run strings on your client; that's where it's coming from: > kidjo [02:32pm] # strings /usr/bin/ssh | grep away > You don't exist, go away! > > I've gotten that message when playing around with NIS; it looked like the > SSH client couldn't tell who I was when I ran it, so it quit. I don't > think you've been cracked; ssh just can't tell who you are. Thanks. I thought it was coming from the server side, didn't think it was a client-side issue. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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