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Date:      Tue, 6 Feb 2001 07:00:30 -0800 (PST)
From:      Benjamin Ossei <ben@cahostnet.net>
To:        <darryl@osborne-ind.com>, "'Kris Kennaway'" <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: sshd -continued
Message-ID:  <20010206150030.F19AA2742@sitemail.everyone.net>

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Do you have a firewall in place.  Are there any rules dening access to port 22?  When you say "no joy" what does that mean?  What errors are you getting?  Also are you going through a firewall on the other end?  They might be blocking it.  I don't know at this point.  Provide more information.


--- "Darryl Hoar" <darryl@osborne-ind.com>
> wrote:
>FreeBSD 4.0-Release.
>
>I went into /usr/ports/security/rsaref.  Then
>did a make.  It fetched the tarball, and 
>compiled it.  I then did a make install, which
>seems to install it.
>
>Tried putty, and nothing.  Did I miss a step.
>here's what I have done:
>
>1.  enable_sshd="YES"  in /etc/rc.conf.
>2.  when server starts, it says it makes the host keys.
>3.  logged in as myself.  ran ssh-keygen.  It prompted
>    for passphrase and other info.  it created /home/darryl/.ssh
>    and put idenitity and idenitity.pub in that directory.
>4.  Installed putty on win32 box.
>5.  Tried connection, no joy.
>6.  downloaded puttygen, and created an RSA key pair on win32 box.
>7.  Tried connected to freebsd host, no joy.
>8.  ftp'd the identity.pub file to my win32 box.
>9.  loaded that key into putty.
>10. tried connection, no joy.
>11. Installed rsaref on freebsd box.
>12. Tried connection, no joy.
>
>what step am I missing ?
>thanks,
>Darryl  
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:kris@obsecurity.org]
>Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 9:59 PM
>To: Darryl Hoar
>Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: Re: sshd -continued
>
>
>On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 04:22:17PM -0600, Darryl Hoar wrote:
>
>> I then started putty on my win32 box, specified my sshd hostname,
>> and ... nothing.  On the Freebsd box, I received:  fatal
>> rsa_private_decrypt()
>> failed.  I tried generating a RSA key with putty, and using that.  Same
>> problem.
>
>On FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE you need to either install the rsaref2 port, or
>be using crypto from an "international" source. Due to patent
>restrictions which were in force at that time we couldn't ship RSA
>code in the base system. This was fixed with the expiry of the RSA
>patent in September, coinciding with the release of 4.1.1.
>
>Kris
>
>
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