RE: OpenSSH anomaly

["GUSAIN,SUBODH (HP-Canada,ex1)" <subodh.gusain () hp com>]

Also, are you running an access control. sometimes the daemon user for sshd
expires resulting all sessions being terminated.

Subodh Gusain
HP-CANADA

-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin Franz [mailto:snowhare () nihongo org]
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 1:24 PM
To: Will Tipton
Cc: incidents () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: OpenSSH anomaly


On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Will Tipton wrote:

> This sounds like an issue we had recently.  It turned out that the 
> passwords had expired and that openssh is broken as far as dealing with 
> it.  If this is the case, as console login should prompt you to change the

> password.  Or, try a chage -l

Nope. But I discovered this morning as backups were attempting to run that
the filesystem apparently has corruption - I have a few files that
suddenly have apparent sizes and ownership info in the absurd range:

-rw-r--r--    1 2439249920 136118272 584782831260017978 Aug 14  2003
redhat-config-xfree86.mo

lrwxr-xr-x    1 543621120 1920139264       13 Nov 16 09:12 K50tux

I also discovered that my inode handlers are apparently leaking. This 
looks like a combination of kernel and/or filesystem problems.

-- 
Benjamin Franz



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