On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 12:07:47 -0700 Ryan Freeman <r...@slipgate.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 06:12:41AM -0500, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > > I added a second -current box to the house. Since the first (named > > FIRST below) had never had anywhere to ssh to, I created its first > > keypair. > > > > Now the Win7 laptop (LAPPER) running Putty has its connections to > > the first -current box dropped before authentication. The key from > > the laptop is still in authorized_keys. /etc/ssh/sshd_config has not > > changed. security, authorization and message log files have nothing > > to say about this. Dmesg and `tcpdump -o` output from the timeframe > > of a connect attempt are below. > > Hi, > > Is there a chance you haven't updated that version of PuTTY recently? > OpenSSH takes a hard line on insecure HMACs and I recently had to > update PuTTY on a work machine as it wouldn't connect to a new OpenBSD > snapshot installation from a couple weeks ago. > > Force people to update software following insecure semantics rather > than make it easy to be lazy is the song and dance here. > > Cheers, > > -ryan > Bingo. PuTTY .63 did the trick. Thanks! -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL