Re: OpenSSH anomaly

[Mike Hoskins <mike () adept org>]

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Benjamin Franz wrote:
> I'm running a RedHat Enterprise 3 ES server that has been running fairly
> reliably for a month. This morning we could not remotely login to the
> server via SSH because openssh would terminate the connection immediately
> (no delay) after apparently successfully logging in - without giving a
> prompt.

did you by chance attempt doing an `ssh -v ...` to the host while it was
exhibiting this behavior?  the verbose debug output would at least let you
see precisely what was happening wrt SSH when the disconnect occured.

-m

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