openssh 2.5.2p2/Solaris 5.8 problems

[Darren Moffat]

>openssh 2.5.2p2 on Solaris 8 has PAM/cron problems. If I build it with PAM
>then cron quits working giving "cron audit problem." errors. If I turn
>PAM off then cron works but I get kicked out of any session where a password 
>is needed (i.e. no .rhosts/.shosts or not using ssh-agent) with the message 
>"Connection closed by IP#". I get through if I have a .rhosts/.shosts or use
>ssh-agent. The following shows the latter error with debugging turned on for 
>both ssh and sshd:


I'm confused where is cron coming into this ?  I don't see any other
mention of cron in your debug output.

Are you using the Solaris cron ?  What is in your pam.conf ?

What authe methods are in your sshd_config and ssh_config files ?

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Darren J Moffat