SVN r339216 breaks ssh to i386 devices

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Mon Oct 8 21:33:30 UTC 2018


Marek Zarychta <zarychtam at plan-b.pwste.edu.pl> writes:
> Michael Butler <imb at protected-networks.net> writes:
> > With an i386 system, ssh sessions to the updated sshd fail with:
> > 
> > sshd[28771]: fatal: mm_getpwnamallow: receive get struct passwd failed
> > [preauth]
> > 
> > This is reproducible on both real hardware and in a VM running an i386
> > build,
> sshd running on 32-bit ARM architecture seems to be also affected after
> update to 12.0-ALPHA8 r339223.

r339216 introduced some code which assumes that time_t is always 64 bits
wide, which is not the case for i386.  I'm not 100% that's the cause, as
it shouldn't break arm32, where time_t *is* 64 bits wide, but it still
needs fixing.  Are you getting the exact same error message as Michael?

DES
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