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I've been using ssh and/or ssh2 daemons on this gentoo system for so long |
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I've forgotten |
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how I had it set up. Now it's broken, and I have no idea how it got that |
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way. |
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At first, it was just taking a long time to connect to this system (home) |
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from work and ask |
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for a password. Now it is still slow, but it just does not respond at all |
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after the password is |
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entered. Also at first, I imagined that I was really having a problem |
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relating to my domain |
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registration being changed, but now that has pretty much settled down. To |
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make things |
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just a bit more difficult, I've been too busy surviving a car crash and |
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dealing with associated |
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medical issues to pay enough attention to this. |
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Anyway, here is some of what I find in the rubble: |
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I have both |
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/etc/init.d/sshd |
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and /etc/init.d/sshd2 |
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I can start and stop sshd, but not sshd2, which complains it's not |
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configured. File |
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timestamps indicate that sshd2 stuff has not changed since some time in |
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2004. |
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Moreover, "equery belongs" cannot locate any package that owns the sshd2 |
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files. |
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The sshd files belong to net-misc/openssh-4.3_p2-r1. |
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AHAH! I've already solved part of the problem, because when I start sshd, I |
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get this: |
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treat init.d # ./sshd start |
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ldap_simple_bind_s(): Can't contact LDAP server (-1) |
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[LDAP] could not initialize ldap connection |
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* Starting sshd ... |
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ldap_simple_bind_s(): Can't contact LDAP server (-1) |
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[LDAP] could not initialize ldap |
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connection |
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[ ok ] |
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treat init.d # |
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This baffled me a bit. I'm not aware of having or running or using any LDAP |
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server. |
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I never have. I notice that there are some LDAP-related things in |
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sshd_config. |
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SOLVED speed problems when I commented these out. There's still a mystery |
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to |
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me though. I'm quite sure I did not change them myself and the last emerge |
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was |
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2 years ago according to /var/log/emerge/log. What I may have done is to |
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adjust X11 |
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forwarding. |
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STILL TROUBLING: |
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why did LDAP get turned on? Whodunnit? |
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why do I have orphaned sshd2 things? |
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STILL BROKEN: |
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Although I can now "ssh" to my system, with no noticeable delays, I cannot |
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"scp" because |
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it still hangs after the password is entered. (I can just ssh and then do |
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the scp "backwards", |
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however). |
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Can anyone help me debug this? What else should I be looking at? |
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-- |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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