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Date:      Sun, 15 Jun 2003 20:59:13 +0200 (CEST)
From:      n0n4m3 <n0n4m3@blue.icn.pl>
To:        Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD STABLE <FreeBSD-STABLE@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: sshd refusing connections problem
Message-ID:  <20030615205816.Q10766@blue.icn.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20030614053608.GB8466@laptop.lambertfam.org>
References:  <20030614053608.GB8466@laptop.lambertfam.org>

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On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Scott Lambert wrote:

> We have been having a problem with sshd on our shell server.
>
> This has been happening since March 4, 2003 or before IIRC.  Initially I
> thought the next OS upgrade, to 4.8 would fix this.  I am accustomed to
> haveing little things go away in a month or two.
>
> I think we jumped to 4.7-STABLE on Feb 28, 2003.  Some exploit fix
> wasn't being MFSd to RELENG_4_7 fast enough for my nerves (cvsd?).  It
> was last upgraded to FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #8: Mon Mar 31 22:13:07 EST
> 2003, RELENG_4_8.
>
> sshd regularly stops accepting new connections.  There is never anything
> in the logs.  This time the last connection before sshd stopped taking
> new connections was the user, lets call him "bob" who always manages to
> leave a lot of processes with the title of "sshd: bob [priv] (sshd)".
> Bob currently has 35 of those processes up.
>
> Jun 13 19:17:55 shell sshd[39482]: Accepted password for bob from 10.321.321.321 port 3616
> Jun 13 20:28:01 shell sshd[72401]: Received SIGHUP; restarting.
> Jun 13 20:28:02 shell sshd[41220]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22.
> Jun 13 21:06:49 shell sshd[42072]: Accepted publickey for scott from 68.160.236.249
>
> Obviously, I faked the IP for "bob".
>
> I consoled in this time and hooked up truss to the server PID.  I was
> running:
>
> while true ; do /usr/bin/ssh shell.example.com; done;
>
> Thinking that if it were a file handle problem, I might accidentally
> get in if I caught it as an active user logged out.  It was closing the
> connection as soon as it was made (TCP handshake).  I have, umm, lost
> the error messages I was seeing on my side.  Hopefully the truss output
> will be sufficient.  My ssh client never got far enough to negotiate a
> key with the server.
>
> Truss output is at :
>
> http://www.lambertfam.org/~lambert/sshd_problem/truss_sshd
>
> netstat -an | grep '\.22   ' output is at :
>
> http://www.lambertfam.org/~lambert/sshd_problem/netstat-an_sshd
>
> Faked the first two octets of the other users' IPs.
>
> Once I -HUP the sshd process and it forks a new daemon, everything is ok
> for another week or two.
>
> --
> Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
> lambert@lambertfam.org
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