SSH Upgrade problems

josephswagner · 12-03-2002, 12:59 PM

I just upgraded openssh on a server of mine to the latest version. I encountered a few problems along the way finding fixes for most of them.

The problem I have now is not being able to log in. I even tried it from the server itself. I keep getting errors about my password being wrong. I think this must have something to do with pam, is there a webpage or something that shows how to setup pam support for openssh?

jakublgz · 12-03-2002, 01:12 PM

Hi. Are you sure your server is using pam? Did you compile sshd corectly? Did you do --with-pam or I would rather say MD5 ?
You didn't specify what OS are you instalizing it on. Go to openssh.org there is a perfect howto about it.

josephswagner · 12-03-2002, 02:41 PM

Okay I recompiled with pam support enabled. I can logon now from the server itself but not from a seperate client.
My hosts.allow file has
sshd: my.client.ip

but the ssh client freezes on my workstation when trying to connect and I am not seeing any messages in the logs related to this problem.

Is it possible my client is too old to work with the latest version?

josephswagner · 12-03-2002, 02:42 PM

I forgot to mention that I am running this on RedHat linux.

jakublgz · 12-03-2002, 02:51 PM

hello,
In hosts.allow you should have ip of a host that you are trying to connect from. Try to put hosts.allow ALL:ALL and in deny don't put anything and then make a test. Plus client can stay as it is. I hope you compiled a 3.5p1 ver. of sshd. It should work .
Jakub.

josephswagner · 12-03-2002, 03:09 PM

Ok. Like always I overlooked the simple things. My firewall was configured to block my client.

So, I changed that and now everything works. Thanks for all the help jakublgz!!