That did it! The config files were out of date. One of the commands in
sshd_config wasn't used anymore (ConnectionsPerPeriod to be exact). Diff
confuses me so I just replace the sshd_config and the pam.conf with the
generic ones and modified them and now it's working great. Thank you so
much!
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Leo Clark
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On Fri, 18 May 2001, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:47:15PM -0700, Leo Clark wrote:
> > During the last day or two sshd has stoped working on my server. It lets
> > you connect and it denies bad account/password combinations. If you login
> > right then it just disconnects you right away.
> >
> > So I tried killing and restarting the service. I got this error message
> > when I launched it and it starting running with the same simptoms as
> > before.
> >
> > error: ConnectionsPerPeriod has been deprecated!
>
> Did the config files get updated? Usually an error that says something
> is deprecated means you're trying to pass obsolete options to the
> program.
>
> >
> > So I tried restarting the box (I know, I know, it's not windows but I'm
> > grabing at straws.). So i tried everything I did before and I noticed
> > something being dumped to the console when I tried to connect:
> >
> > May 17 21:30:43 drivesac sshd[309]: no modules loaded for `sshd' service
> > May 17 21:30:43 drivesac sshd[309]: fatal: PAM session setup failed[6]: Permission
>denied
> > May 17 21:30:43 drivesac sshd[309]: no modules loaded for `sshd' service
> >
> > I just cvsup'd to 4.3 2 days ago. I'm pretty sure it was worked since
> > then but I'm not 100%. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.
> >
> RELENG_4_3? Should be OpenSSH 2.3.0, what was it before?
> Make sure both machines agree on which protocol to use.
> It also looks like your pam config files are out of whack.
> I have never used FreeBSD, but on an OpenBSD system, I would do something
> like:
> diff -u /etc/sshd_config /usr/src/usr.bin/ssh/sshd_config
> and
> diff -u /etc/ssh_config /usr/src/usr.bin/ssh/ssh_config
> and look at the changes.
> Do the same type of thing for the pam configs. (OpenBSD doesn't
> have pam; I don't off-hand remember the setup for Linux :)
> If that doesn't turn up anything, move the ~/.ssh directory to
> ~/.ssh.old for the user(s) you are testing connectivity with on both
> machines. See if something there is causing problems.
>
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