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Date:      Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:07:45 +0200
From:      Udo Schweigert <ust@cert.siemens.de>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, Jason Evans <jasone@magnesium.net>, Konstantin Chuguev <Konstantin.Chuguev@dante.org.uk>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ssh and scp fail connecting to a root account
Message-ID:  <20000920100745.A48205@alaska.cert.siemens.de>
In-Reply-To: <200009200306.e8K36Os12846@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from brian@Awfulhak.org on Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 04:06:24AM %2B0100
References:  <kris@FreeBSD.org> <200009200306.e8K36Os12846@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>

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On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 04:06:24 +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> > On 17 Sep 2000, Jason Evans wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 03:40:12PM +0100, Konstantin Chuguev wrote:
> > > > Udo Schweigert wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > after a fresh build of -current openssh does not work if connecting to the
> > > > > root-user. For example (tested from a -stable machine, but the same from
> > > > > 4.1-RELEASE):
> > > > 
> > > > Yes, I've been seeing the same thing since the checkout of the SMPng stuff...
> > > > No idea why it's happening.
> > > 
> > > I've seen similar things intermittently over the past 10 days, and
> > > specifically the same problem for the past three days or so.  I'm pretty
> > > sure that the problems have been associated with the random device rather
> > > than the SMP work specifically.
> > 
> > Well, the crash is apparently due to malloc flags - remove the
> > /etc/malloc.conf link and it may work better. I've only seen this once,
> > and when I tried to run sshd under gdb it went away, and now I can't
> > reproduce it again. :-(
> 
> Got it !
> 
> See version 1.6 of src/lib/libc/stdlib/setenv.c.  This took me all 
> night - Up for work in two hours !!! :-(
> 

Perfect! Now it also works for me. Thank you very much, Brian.

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