Dual Athlon

[Robert G. Brown]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Vos wrote:

> I've had combatibility problems between OpenSSH and ssh.com's
> implementation.  I had two linux boxen that could telnet back and forth,
> but could not ssh.  I put ssh.com's on both and the problem went away.

I've experienced similar things in the past, but ssh -v indicates:

debug: Remote protocol version 1.99, remote software version OpenSSH_2.3.0p1
debug: no match: OpenSSH_2.3.0p1
Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_2.3.0p1

which suggests that they are using OpenSSH also, albeit a slightly
earlier revision.  The rest of the verbose handshaking proceeds
perfectly up to password entry:

debug: authentications that can continue: publickey,password
debug: next auth method to try is publickey
debug: next auth method to try is password
rgb at dual's password:
debug: authentications that can continue: publickey,password
debug: next auth method to try is password
Permission denied, please try again.
rgb at dual's password:
rgb at lucifer|T:113>

(where I've tried typing my password and the password for the other
account they tried to roll for me maybe fifty times by now -- it is
impossible that I'm mistyping).  I'm pretty well stuck at this point
until they unstick me.  I'd get exactly the same "Permission denied"
message if the login fails because my account doesn't really exist and
I'm warped into NOUSER or if there really is a Failed password or if the
account exists but has e.g. a bad shell or bad /etc/passwd file entry.

I can debug this sort of thing in five minutes on my own system, but I'm
at their mercy on theirs.  So far today, the guy I wrote to suggest a
few simple tests (like him trying to login and/or ssh to my account with
the same password they gave me) hasn't responded at all.  I'll give them
until tomorrow and then I'll try escalating a bit.

   rgb

>
> David
>
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Robert G. Brown wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Mofeed Shahin wrote:
> >
> > > So Robert, when are you going to let us know the results of the Dual Athlon ?
> > > :-)
> > >
> > > Mof.
> >
> > They got my account setup yesterday, but for some reason I'm having a
> > hard time connecting via ssh (it's rejecting my password).  We've tried
> > both a password they sent me and an MD5 crypt I sent them. Very strange
> > -- I use OpenSSH routinely to connect all over the place so I'm
> > reasonably sure my client is OK.  Anyway, I expect it is something
> > trivial and that I'll get in sometime this morning.  I spent the time
> > yesterday that I couldn't get in profitably anyway packaging stream and
> > a benchmark sent to me by Thomas Guignol of the list up into make-ready
> > tarball/RPM's.  At the moment my list looks something like:
> >
> > stream
> > guignol
> > cpu-rate
> > lmbench (ass'td)
> > LAM/MPI plus two benchmarks (Josip and Doug each suggested one)
> > EPCC OpenMP microbenchmarks (probably with PGI)
> > possibly some fft timings (Martin Seigert)
> >
> > in roughly that order, depending on how much time I get and how well
> > things go.  I'm going to TRY to build a page with all the tests I used
> > in tarball/rpm form, results, and commentary.
> >
> >    rgb
> >
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Robert G. Brown	                       http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/
Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305
Durham, N.C. 27708-0305
Phone: 1-919-660-2567  Fax: 919-660-2525     email:rgb at phy.duke.edu