Problem connecting to v2.9.9p2 on Solaris 8

[Ed Phillips]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Markus Friedl wrote:

> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 16:16:41 +0100
> From: Markus Friedl <markus at openbsd.org>
> To: Ed Phillips <ed at UDel.Edu>
> Cc: OpenSSH Development <openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org>
> Subject: Re: Problem connecting to v2.9.9p2 on Solaris 8
>
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 10:02:58AM -0500, Ed Phillips wrote:
> > I ran into a weird problem yesterday where Putty can't connect to my
> > OpenSSH/Sol box (and still can't ever since).  On the Putty side I get the
> > error message:
> >
> > "internal fault: chaos in SSH 2 transport layer"
> >
> > I've attached the "sshd -d -d -d" syslog output.
> >
> > Any ideas what's going wrong here?  From a layman's point of view, it
> > would appear that Putty and OpenSSH can't decide on key algorithms... but
> > why would this happen?  I use Putty to connect to other
> > OpenSSH2.9.9p2/Sol8 installs (the same compiled code) and it works fine...
>
> the sshd offers a ssh v2 RSA hostkey,
> putty says it can only understand ssh v2 DSA hostkeys,
> so they cannot agree.
>
> i suggest to generate a SSH v2 DSA hostkey, too.

That's it!  Thanks!  I wasn't aware that Putty only supported DSA in v2...
oh well... ;-)

	Ed

Ed Phillips <ed at udel.edu> University of Delaware (302) 831-6082
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