package: ssh version: 3.8p1-3 As of updating on 2004/04/23, ssh for users is now failing on my two Debian Unstable machines. Root is able to use ssh properly. User console output as as follows:
$ ssh -v 127.0.0.1 OpenSSH_3.8p1 Debian 1:3.8p1-3, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0.9.7d 17 Mar 2004 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Connecting to 127.0.0.1 [127.0.0.1] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: identity file /home/robochan/.ssh/identity type -1 debug1: identity file /home/robochan/.ssh/id_rsa type -1 debug1: identity file /home/robochan/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_3.8p1 Debian 1:3.8p1-3 debug1: match: OpenSSH_3.8p1 Debian 1:3.8p1-3 pat OpenSSH* debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0 debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.8p1 Debian 1:3.8p1-3 debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received debug1: kex: server->client aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none debug1: kex: client->server aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/bin/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory Host key verification failed. The 2 machines in question are running kernel 2.4.25, libc6 2.3.2.ds1-12.

