What would cause keyboard-interactive packet connection close

[Darren Tucker]

Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:

> 	I've got a remote system that was down and came back up. I'm
> trying to get into the system, but when I do I get timed out. I
> forced it to a keyboard interactive to speed things up:
> 
> ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=keyboard-interactive -vvv tuc at 10.2.0.2
[...]
> debug2: we sent a keyboard-interactive packet, wait for reply
> Connection closed by 10.2.0.2
> debug1: Calling cleanup 0x804c158(0x0)
> 
> 
> 	What would make it close at that point?

If the server is a Linux box with a somewhat dated glibc, possibly a bug 
in that:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=111045930530623&w=2

Failing that, mentioning what kind of system the server is and what 
version of OpenSSH it's running is more likely to get some help.

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