SOLVED: ssh2 key passphrase problems in 2.9.9 on Linux

[Phil Stracchino]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 06:10:43PM -0700, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 01:22:59AM +0100, Dr S N Henson wrote:
> > This is starting to look like a compiler bug.
> 
> I've been suspecting that myself.  The curious thing is that OpenSSH 2.9p2
> and OpenSSL 0.9.6a were working fine.


Compiler bug it is.  I haven't yet managed to rebuild a gcc-2.95,3, but I
installed an old egcs-1.1.2 (gcc-2.91.66) and recompiled OpenSSL and
OpenSSH with that, and suddenly it all worked.  There was one minor quirk:
'ssh-agent > file' no longer produced any output to <file>.  However,
'VAR=`ssh-agent`; echo $VAR > file' worked fine.  Go figure.  I then 
recompiled OpenSSH-2.9.9 with gcc-3.0, and that worked fine, and the 
ssh-agent > file quirk vanished.  Go figure.


So, be it officially known:  gcc-3.0 will NOT correctly compile OpenSSL
v0.9.6 on Linux, but compiles OpenSSH 2.9.9 without any problems against a 
known-good OpenSSL installation.




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