[Solved] Re: sshd stops accepting connections

[Wilkinson, Alex]

    0n Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 06:59:10AM +1030, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: 

    >On 2004.11.12 21:12:12 +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
    >
    >> Today I suddenly couldn't log in via ssh to a server I upgraded to
    >> FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE 4 days ago.  When I tried connect to port 22 using
    >> telnet(1) the following just happend:
    >> 
    >> [simon at zaphod:~] telnet 192.168.3.2 22
    >> Trying 192.168.3.2...
    >> Connected to jet.nitro.dk.
    >> Escape character is '^]'.
    >> Connection closed by foreign host.
    >
    >[...]
    >
    >For the archives and anybody who may be interested...
    >
    >There is some kind of bug in OpenSSH 3.8.1p1's sshd (the one shipped
    >with 5.3), possibly related to PAM and Privilege Separation.  The fix
    >for me was simply to install OpenSSH 3.9 from ports, and I haven't had
    >the problem since.

3.9 ?

I have an updated ports collection and ....

# grep -i portv /usr/ports/security/openssh/Makefile 
PORTVERSION=    3.6.1
DISTNAME=       openssh-${PORTVERSION}
PATCHFILES=     openbsd28_${PORTVERSION}.patch

 - aW