On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Ben Ricker wrote:

> I am running SSH on a number of servers but none use SSH for anything 
> but admin login. I am thinking of switching all users to it (for obvious 
> security reasons) but I have had a rash of problems lately. The first 
> was the 'Bad Packet' error which no one seems to care about or know the 
> answer to why it suddenly appears on 2 servers while other servers 
> running the same OS and SSH version work fine.

Have you tried a snapshot[1] release? Does it fix your problem?

> This problem is on a Sun E250 runninng Solaris 8 and OpenSSH 2.3. I 
> could log into the box perfectly fine before but have not accessed the 
> box in a while (at least a week). Now, I get the following trace when I 
> try to login to a server:
> 
> debug: authentications that can continue: publickey,password
> debug: next auth method to try is publickey
> debug: key does not exist: /home/username/.ssh/id_dsa
> debug: next auth method to try is password
> admin@hostname's password:
> debug: authentications that can continue: publickey,password
> debug: next auth method to try is password                   

We really need to logs from the server to diagnose this.

-d

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