I just grabbed the OpenSSH 1.2.1pre27 sources from the openssh web site. I already had a working installation of OpenSSL (also built from source). For the most part OpenSSH works fine, but I have 3 problems with it -- one of which may be a bug in the Makefile/configure script, but anyway.... Really I'm just wondering if anyone else has seen these problems. I'd write to the OpenSSH list if it existed, but the only ones I see are for developers and for "bug reports" and I'm not sure I'm ready to file a "bug report" just yet.
Anyway, here they are: 1) When I send the process a HUP signal, it is unable to restart. I see this message in /var/log/auth.log: sshd[21839]: Received SIGHUP; restarting. sshd[21839]: RESTART FAILED: av0='sshd', error: No such file or directory. Normally I would think that it was just a problem with the daemon's PATH env variable, but even if I use "env" to run it with a path which includes the binary's dir, I get the same error. Ex: # env PATH=/usr/local/openssh/bin:/usr/local/openssh/sbin:$PATH /usr/local/openssh/sbin/sshd I have looked at the daemon's output under strace and with debug (-d) mode enabeled but I don't see what file it can't find. 2) Though I set the pidfile dir to /usr/local/var/run, it still puts it in /var/run. Here was my "configure" line: configure --prefix=/usr/local/openssh --enable-gnome-askpass --with-tcp- wrappers --with-md5-passwords --with-pid-dir=/usr/local/var/run Is this a bug? 3) Lastly, when I enable "UseLogin" in the sshd_config, the daemon boots me out when I try to log in. Here is what I see in auth.log: sshd[22097]: debug: Allocating pty. sshd[22097]: debug: Forking shell. sshd[22097]: debug: Entering interactive session. sshd[22101]: debug: Setting controlling tty using TIOCSCTTY. sshd[22097]: debug: Received SIGCHLD. sshd[22097]: debug: End of interactive session; stdin 0, stdout (read 125, sent 125), stderr 0 bytes. sshd[22097]: debug: Command exited with status 1. sshd[22097]: debug: Received exit confirmation. sshd[22097]: Closing connection to 127.0.0.1 And in sshd's debug output: debug: Attempting authentication for <user>. Accepted password for <user> from 127.0.0.1 port 3695 debug: Allocating pty. debug: Forking shell. debug: Entering interactive session. debug: Setting controlling tty using TIOCSCTTY. debug: Received SIGCHLD. debug: End of interactive session; stdin 0, stdout (read 125, sent 125), stderr 0 bytes. debug: Command exited with status 1. debug: Received exit confirmation. Closing connection to 127.0.0.1 While the client sees the following: Warning: Remote host denied X11 forwarding. Environment: SSH_CLIENT=127.0.0.1 3695 2519 SSH_TTY=/dev/ttypf TERM=xterm-debian login: No such file or directory Connection to localhost closed. I can log in with no problem if I don't enable the "UseLogin" option. Shouldn't sshd be able to find /bin/login if it's in its PATH? Thanks for any help.
