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Date:      Thu, 4 Oct 2001 14:16:38 +0100
From:      setantae <setantae@submonkey.net>
To:        "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SSH problems in 4.4-STABLE
Message-ID:  <20011004141638.A6438@rhadamanth>
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 %2B0200
References:  <20011004135659.B4406@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> <20011004145902.A48848-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>

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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 <auth.info> klima sshd[291]: Server listening on xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 22.
> :>> Oct  1 22:15:22 <auth.crit> 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

-- 
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