On Tue, 20 May 2008 20:45:20 +0100 "Alexandros Papadopoulos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 3. Testing to see if you can still get on to a server is exactly what > I would have done, if my connection had not been killed by the server > itself a few seconds after upgrading the packages. This happened on > two servers running different versions of debian (etch & lenny). This is not normal. I have upgraded two of my servers where I have also only SSH access, and I didn't experience any breakage of the connection. Since you have experienced this on both an etch and a lenny machine, something points in the direction of, that you have done something wrong, perhaps with you initial setup. > 4. So I did get bitten by "this" - whatever that is. Now how do I fix > it? I have employed local staff to relax the restrictions of > sshd_config and restart the daemon, with absolutely no change in > behavior. So at this point you cannot gain access on the machine at all using SSH, but you have a local staff with access. Make them purge (not just delete) the openssh-server, and re-install it. > a) How/why were my active connections to the server killed right after > upgrading and Almost impossible to know since so far you are the only one reporting this behaviour. > b) Why I am not allowed access now that I try to utilise the simplest > of all, keyboard interactive authentication. I'd suspect breakage > between the new openssh daemon and the authentication mechanisms (PAM, > GSSAPI, you-name-it), but on two different distributions > simultaneously? Perhaps, but a purge would solve the problem then. > I'd appreciate any helpful comment both for my case and for the > benefit of anyone else who gets "bit" by what has historically been a > quite safe and painless procedure: updating a Debian system. I hope you find the solution quickly. > Thanks > > -A > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Kim N. Lesmer Programmer/Systems administrator Web : www.bitflop.com E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]