strange failure

[Saint Michael]

I am connecting to 127.0.01 and the problem persists. I am not using PAM.
But thanks for the /bin/true tip.



On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 12:44 AM Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 10:32 PM Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Stop playing with redirects and funkified exit values on the far end
> if you don't have to. Just use ""/bin/true". And print $i locally,
> with a success or failure, to see *exactly* how many successful
> connections you get.
>
> Some smart alecks put in various rate limiting on intervening
> firewalls or proxies, to limit port scanning and host scanning. You
> might check there as well.
>