strange failure

[Damien Miller]

On Sun, 25 Jul 2021, Saint Michael wrote:

> There is a Centos 7 machine where this falls after 80 loops
> 
> target="same host"
> while [ $i -ne 500 ];do
> echo -e "$i"
> ssh -p 22 root@${target} "ls / 1>/dev/null && exit;"
> ((i++))
> done
> The loop does not fail against Ubuntu boxes.
> kindly let me know if I am doing something wrong.

It's very hard to figure out what is wrong without logs (both client
and server), but I'd start by checking your PAM configuration.

-d