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On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 02:48:36PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote |
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>> Hi, folks! |
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>> I'm trying to get sshd working on an embryonic Gentoo installation on my |
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>> laptop. The reason is that I want to ssh from my nice comfy desktop |
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>> system into this laptop to do the rest of the installation stuff. |
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>> The installation kernel with which I'm having problems is: |
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>> Linux livecd 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 #1 SMP Tue Nov 3 11:40:51 UTC 2009. |
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>> Having started sshd on my laptop, when I do |
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>> ssh -lroot 192.168.2.101 |
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>> from my desktop, I get prompted for my ssh key's pass phrase, which I |
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>> enter. Thereafter, nothing happens, and it continues to happen for a |
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>> long, long time. |
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> Has your install gotten to the stage where you can chroot and emerge |
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> and unmerge. If so, I would suggest the following... |
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> 1) unmerge pam. *DO NOT LOGOUT OR REBOOT* |
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> 2) put the line |
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> sys-libs/pam |
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> in /etc/portage/package.mask Create the file if it doesn't exist. |
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> 3) emerge shadow *BEFORE YOU LOG OUT OR REBOOT*. |
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> Pam is an extra-high-security option that makes sense on a public |
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> server with lots of people being able to log in. On a personal laptop |
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> it is overkill. There was a comedy album once that was called... |
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> "Everything You Know Is Wrong". That describes Pam. The security |
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> settings for various services are in totally different files and |
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> locations than normal. |
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> Are you still booting from the install CD? The way you are running |
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> sshd is not how the install manual suggests to do it. The webpage... |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=2 |
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> shows that you can pass the kernel options... |
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> dosshd passwd=temppassword |
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> at bootup, where "temppassword" is a temporary password. This allows |
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> you to log in by typing the temporary password. |
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> -- |
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> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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None of which would affect (failing) pty allocation... while I share |
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the disdain for PAM, it doesn't likely do a whole lot to fix the |
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problem at hand. |
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Poison [BLX] |
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Joshua M. Murphy |
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