Hello Ruggero,
Am Thu, Jun 05, 2025 at 11:32:41AM +0200 schrieb ruggero rossi via ptxdist:
> Migrating to ptxdist 2025.05.0 I got a problem with openssh 10.0p1 (or p2,
> whatever is the official name).
>
> The openssh server does not start.
>
> Starting it manually, I get the message:
> /usr/sbin/sshd-auth does not exist or is not executable
>
> Installing /usr/sbin/sshd-auth solves the problem.
>
> Maybe this is due to some unfortunate combination of old libc and legacy
> certificates, however in the release note of openssh 10.0.p2 I read:
>
> "this release removes the code responsible for the user authentication
> phase of the protocol from the per connection sshd-session binary to a new
> sshd-auth binary..... Downstream distributors of OpenSSH will need to
> package the sshd-auth binary."
>
> In case the problem is confirmed, attached there is a patch.
The same problem was addressed with commit
c240fdd0de4f9b15263a6b8dae2e17a510dafd66 ("openssh: install missing
sshd-auth binary") in ptxdist master earlier this week.
Greets
Alex
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ruggero
> --- rules/openssh.make.org 2025-06-05 10:56:26.949816645 +0200
> +++ rules/openssh.make 2025-06-05 10:57:19.878901998 +0200
> @@ -108,6 +108,8 @@
> /usr/sbin/sshd)
> @$(call install_copy, openssh, 0, 0, 0755, -, \
> /usr/sbin/sshd-session)
> + @$(call install_copy, openssh, 0, 0, 0755, -, \
> + /usr/sbin/sshd-auth)
> ifdef PTXCONF_OPENSSH_SSHD_GENKEYS
> @$(call install_alternative, openssh, 0, 0, 0755,
> /etc/rc.once.d/openssh)
> endif
