Linux sshd dumps core unless client is insecure.

[Damien Miller]

On 21 Jun 2000, Andrew Donkin wrote:

> If I "sshd -d -p222" it only dumps core if I supply the correct password.
> If I "strace sshd -d -p222" it dumps core if I give any non-null
> password.  Weird, eh?

The sshd in this case being 2.1.1p1?

Can you get a backtrace from the core?

Compile sshd with debugging (-g in CFLAGS), run and break it. Then fire
up gdb:

echo bt | gdb ./sshd core

and send the result.

-d

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