OpenSSH anomaly

[Benjamin Franz <snowhare () nihongo org>]

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. We are current on patches up to Feb 1 with the exception of the
kernel which is RHES 2.4.21-4.0.1.ELsmp. A console reboot succeeded in
restoring connectivity. We couldn't find any footprints in any log or any
suspicious file activity. No record of the failed logins (we attempted
using both pubkey and password) were in the logs. The openssh version is
RedHat's 3.6.1p2-18.

Has anyone else seen something similiar?

-- 
Benjamin Franz

On that of which one cannot speak, one must remain silent.
                                   ---Wittgenstein



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