Re: SSH Daemon failing
The machine is running woody and is up to date, SSH version 3.0.2p1-6.
I have already tried purging the package and downloading it again (will
check the MD5 sums afterward to make sure).
Andrew Tait
System Administrator
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----- Original Message -----
From: <tps@unslept.com>
To: "Andrew Tait" <andrewt@cnl.com.au>
Cc: <debian-isp@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: SSH Daemon failing
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 03:27:07PM +1100, Andrew Tait wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > A few days ago SSH just failed on me, out of the blue.
> >
> > Everytime I start ssh (/etc/init.d/ssh start), this appears in the
auth.log
> > file:
> >
> > Feb 25 13:50:44 porky sshd[453]: fatal: daemon() failed: Success
> >
> > I can run ssh in debug mode (sshd -d) or by telling it not to detach
> > (sshd -D) and it runs fine. It just when it tried to daemonise itself
that
> > it fails, as you can see by the log files. Other processes such as
syslogd
> > start/stop fine.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> What version of ssh? If you have a machine with the exact same sshd
> binary, compare the md5sums. If you were running ssh v1, you may have been
> hacked, and a trojaned sshd installed.
>
> Tim
>
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