Problems on Sparcs (fwd)

[Hamon, Brian K.]

One thing I can see is that you are running sshd from inetd through 
tcp_wrappers.

Wouldn't it be preferable to link in libwrap.a and start sshd in /etc/rc3.d ?


At 01:57 PM 12/06/2000, Markus Friedl wrote:
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>From: Charles Clancy <mgrtcc at cs.rose-hulman.edu>
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>I compiled OpenSSH 2.3.0p1 for Solaris 7 (32-bit) with OpenSSL 0.95a, with
>GCC 2.95.2 (sunfreeware.com binaries).
>
>We are using OpenSSH because it supports PAM, which is required for our
>network, as our workstations run AFS, and very few daemons support
>authentication via AFS.
>
>On our most frequently used Ultra 80 (2x450MHz, 1G RAM), we have been
>having problems ever since upgrading from SSH 1.2.27 (w/ PAM patch) to
>OpenSSH.  Remote SSH connections stop working after about 2 days (sshd is
>run from inetd through tcp_wrappers).  After 2 days, if you log in
>locally, graphical logins will halt.  A console text-based login works,
>but about half the basic unix commands have problems.  For example, a "w"
>only returns the first line, and then halts.  A "ps -ef" will get about
>half way through before getting stuck.  A CTRL-C won't get you out of them
>either.  All you can do is "sync; reboot" from a telnet connection
>(tcp_wrappers is configured to allow telnet from one of our servers).
>
>This machine is being used mostly as a general purpose workstation.  I
>know at least one person is using MATLAB and doing some X-Forwarding.
>
>All the other machines (1 Ultra 80 and 10 Ultra 10s) are working fine.  We
>did have one Ultra 2 (web server) that exhibited some of these problems,
>but I immediately switched it back to SSH 1.2.27, because we can't afford
>any downtime on that machine.
>
>Do you have any idea what would cause this bizarre behavior?
>
>Thanks!
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>       Charles Clancy -- mgrtcc at cs.rose-hulman.edu
>Senior UNIX Administrator, Rose-Hulman Computer Science