Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 15:30:20 -0700 From: Andrew Reitz <ajr9@po.cwru.edu> To: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Problems with sshd on FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE Message-ID: <A0BAE2CE-9783-45B0-8414-1B8513A06F0C@po.cwru.edu> In-Reply-To: <CA255C3B-42BB-4F51-A556-4560302F2689@po.cwru.edu> References: <CA255C3B-42BB-4F51-A556-4560302F2689@po.cwru.edu>
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On May 31, 2006, at 3:26 PM, Andrew Reitz wrote: > Hello, > > For reasons that I don't want to go into here, I have recently > downgraded my principal FreeBSD server from 6.1 to 4.11-RELEASE. I > did this by installing a fresh copy of FreeBSD 4.11 on a clean HD, > and then I rsync'd all of my data over. > > Everything has been working fine, until I tried to SSH to the box > this afternoon. While everything was working fine this morning, now > sshd hangs up immediately on all clients that attempt to connect. > In /var/log/messages, I see errors like this for every ssh > connection attempt: > > May 31 15:21:06 redefine sshd[8543]: error: ssh_dss_sign: sign failed > May 31 15:21:06 redefine sshd[8543]: fatal: mm_answer_sign: > key_sign failed > > Google hasn't enlightened me at all. This was *just* working a few > hours ago, and now, nada. Does anyone on this list have any ideas? Curiously, I just restarted sshd, and now things are working again. Has anybody ever seen this before? -Andy.
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