After I upgraded to 3.9 stable from Oct 10 SSH key login no longer work. All my servers stopped working with SSH key logins with the result that all my rsync automated backups gave up. This happened after my last upgrade October 10, where I did a full source update of my 3.9 stable. I could however still login with any account where I use passwords. Both source and target SSH was OpenBSD and 3.9 from October 10. And as said it happened on six server at the same time. The only thing that could have caused this is that this update contained the new OpenSSH 4.4.
I think the thread " Cannot login into OpenSSH after applying patch 020_ssh2.patch to OpenBSD 3.8 stable" is not the same problem. Or is it? Well... the fix for that thread problem was "cd /usr/src/usr.bin/ssh && make obj depend && make && make install". And that does not help here.... Apart from that, the result is EXACTLY the same as the referenced thread. Login with keys from a patched 3.9 system to a non patched system (ssh 4.4 against 4.3) still works... Any clues? Thanks in advance Per-Olov