Hello:
Ia m having trouble installing/running ssh/sshd 1.2.6 on a Sparc
Ultra1 running Solaris 2.5.1, the problem being with ssh-keygen.
I unpacked the distribution and ran ./configure without any
errors. "make" compiled everything without errors or warnings. However,
"make install" hangs on:
ssh-keygen -b 1024 -f /etc/ssh_host_key -N:
>Generating 1024 bit host key.
>Initializing random number generator
>Generating p: ..................................... (goes on forever).
(running ./ssh-keygen with -b 768 yields the same result)
For some reason it cannot generate a key. I've pasted the output of
pstack and pmap below. It appears to be stuck at mpz_powm or the rsa
generation function. gmp2.02 came with the distribution and the
"make" compiles a libgmp.a and libmp.a in gmp2 subdirectory of the
source distribution.
We have several Sparc Solaris 2.5.1 -2.7 machines runing ssh/sshd, and
none of the others have this problem. Copying over a working ssh-keygen
from one of the other machines and running it yields the same result
>Generating p: ......................................................
The problem is localized to this one machine, but I can't seem to figure
out what the difference is, or what's causing it.
#./pstack 18610
18610: ./ssh-keygen -b 1024 -f /etc/ssh_host_key -N
00025b6c ???????? (efffb480, 0, efffb458, fb9294da, efffb4d0, 10)
0002025c mpz_powm (efffb4c8, efffb4d0, 40, efffb440, 3eab8, 0) + 47c
00016560 rsa_random_prime (3ccb8, 28000, 200, 28000, 28000, 1ff) + 1fc
00016a44 rsa_generate_key (3cc84, 3cb18, 3ccd0, 400, 3cc00, 28) + 90
00015210 main (3b400, effffcc4, 7, 3cc00, 3b400, 26c00) + 2d8
000140f4 _start (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) + 5c
# ./pmap 18610
18610: ./ssh-keygen -b 1024 -f /etc/ssh_host_key -N
00010000 112K read/exec dev: 32,40 ino: 1302930
0003A000 16K read/write/exec dev: 32,40 ino: 1302930
0003E000 8K [ heap ]
0003E000 8K read/write/exec
EF580000 512K read/exec /usr/lib/libc.so.1
EF60E000 32K read/write/exec /usr/lib/libc.so.1
EF616000 8K read/write/exec
EF630000 16K read/exec /usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-1/lib/libc_psr.so.1
EF642000 8K read/write/exec
/usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-1/lib/libc_psr.so.1
EF650000 8K read/write/exec
EF660000 32K read/exec /usr/lib/libw.so.1
EF676000 8K read/write/exec /usr/lib/libw.so.1
EF680000 392K read/exec /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1
EF6F0000 40K read/write/exec /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1
EF6FA000 32K read/write/exec
EF710000 16K read/exec /usr/lib/libmp.so.1
EF722000 8K read/write/exec /usr/lib/libmp.so.1
EF730000 16K read/exec /usr/lib/libintl.so.1
EF742000 8K read/write/exec /usr/lib/libintl.so.1
EF760000 8K read/exec /usr/lib/libsec.so.1
EF770000 16K read/write/exec /usr/lib/libsec.so.1
EF780000 56K read/exec /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1
EF79C000 8K read/write/exec /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1
EF7B0000 8K read/exec /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
EF7C0000 120K read/exec /usr/lib/ld.so.1
EF7EC000 16K read/write/exec /usr/lib/ld.so.1
EFFF8000 32K read/write/exec
EFFF8000 32K [ stack ]
Attempting to connect to another machine with the ssh client gets as
far as "Sent encrypted session key" then fails with an error message
on the remote machine
"sshd: fatal: rsa_private_decryptO failed"
Again, this appears to be a problem with key generation. We have
several other solaris boxes running 2.5.1, 2.6 and 2.7. These all
run ssh/sshd without any problems. I have compared the shared
libraries used by ssh/sshd on the problematic machine against those on
another 2.5.1 machine with a working ssh/sshd. The shared libs are
the same on both machines. I could not find any obvious difference
between the 2.5.1 machines. I have searched the net and only found
references to this function being related to the vulnerability in ssh.
But that was no help in my situation.
Any help greatly appreaciated.
Thanks,
Mike
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mike lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
system administrator
thirdage media, inc. www.thirdage.com
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