I solved it by excluding PAM and including md5 at compile time...
Maybe this will help some other people...
From: "Niklas Fondberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 8:37 PM
Subject: problems with getting started on RH 6.1
> Here is an output when run with the -d option
> [root@gandalf sbin]# ./sshd -d
> debug1: sshd version OpenSSH_2.3.0p1
> debug1: Seeding random number generator
> debug1: read DSA private key done
> debug1: Seeding random number generator
> debug1: Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0.
> Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22.
> Generating 768 bit RSA key.
> debug1: Seeding random number generator
> debug1: Seeding random number generator
> RSA key generation complete.
> debug1: Server will not fork when running in debugging mode.
> Connection from 195.163.195.37 port 2060
> debug1: Client protocol version 1.5; client software version W1.0
> debug1: no match: W1.0
> debug1: Local version string SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_2.3.0p1
> debug1: Sent 768 bit public key and 1024 bit host key.
> debug1: Encryption type: 3des
> debug1: Received session key; encryption turned on.
> debug1: Installing crc compensation attack detector.
> debug1: Starting up PAM with username "root"
> debug1: Attempting authentication for root.
> debug1: PAM Password authentication for "root" failed[7]: Authentication failure
> Failed password for ROOT from 195.163.195.37 port 2060
> fatal: Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer
> debug1: Calling cleanup 0x80506e0(0x0)
> Cannot close PAM session[4]: System error
> debug1: Cannot delete credentials[15]: Authentication service cannot retrieve user
>credentials
> debug1: Calling cleanup 0x806028c(0x0)
> [root@gandalf sbin]#
>
> If I try again (second time after reboot) I get the "can't bind to address" problem.
>
> Some configuration stats
> Redhat 6.1 on i386
> openssl (latest stable as on nov 00)
>
> Please help
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