From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 4 6:17:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from relay3-gui.server.ntli.net (relay3-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.4.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83C9C37B403 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 06:17:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc2-card3-0-cust79.cdf.cable.ntl.com ([213.107.2.79] helo=rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net ident=exim) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 15p8NL-0002Nj-00; Thu, 04 Oct 2001 14:17:19 +0100 Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15p8Mg-0001ga-00; Thu, 04 Oct 2001 14:16:38 +0100 Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 14:16:38 +0100 From: setantae To: "Hartmann, O." Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSH problems in 4.4-STABLE Message-ID: <20011004141638.A6438@rhadamanth> Mail-Followup-To: "Hartmann, O." , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20011004135659.B4406@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> <20011004145902.A48848-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011004145902.A48848-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>; from ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de on Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 03:00:56PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 03:00:56PM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: > On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Ceri wrote: > > :>On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 02:41:23PM +0200, Hartmann, O. said: > :>> Dear Sirs. > :>> Again, I have still massive problems with the recent ssh in FreeBSD > :>> 4.4-STABLE as cvsupdated two days ago. I reported this problem when > :>> we were on the way toward FBSD 4.4-RELEASE (4.4-RC). > :>> > :>> On SMP machines, sshd crashes when regenerating the host key after > :>> 3600 or 1800 seconds. The log error is: > :>> > :>> Oct 1 22:15:22 klima sshd[291]: Server listening on xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 22. > :>> Oct 1 22:15:22 klima sshd[291]: fatal: rsa_generate_private_key: key generation > :>> failed. > :> > :>I also get this, also only on my SMP system > :>My workaround is to set up a cron entry to HUP sshd every 30 minutes. > Well, HUPing sshd has the result for me that sshd crashes also > some times. I feel better that someone has the same problem > (I regret this, but last time guys meant I saw white mice ...). > > Hope this problem gets fixed soon. Does anything has changed in the > /dev/random device? It seems that the RSA key could not be created > the right way ... I also occasionally get : sshd no RSA support in libssl and libcrypto. See ssl(8) But since this is also intermittent, I find it strange that the RSA support can be there on one boot, and not the other... Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message