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ssh is not connecting in SuSE10

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by eldhom 1 view

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Hi....
I am not able to connect to our SuSE10 - 64 bit machine via ssh. I tried to restart the service using "/etc/initd.d/sshd restart", it is failing without any error message.

To debug i did the following:

1. In the file /etc/init.d/sshd there is an option "start" . Under that there is a statement "startproc -f -f $SSHD_PIDFILE /usr/sbin/sshd $SSHD_OPTS -o "PidFile=$SSHD_PIDFILE"

I added echo $? and restart ssh. Now it failed with error 7.

2. I compared the binary files /usr/sbin/sshd of this machine and another machine [suse 10 64 bit] in which ssh is working. Both differ.

3. I tried to replace the following files from another system in which ssh is working.

/etc/ssh/sshd_config
/etc/init.d/sshd
/etc/pam.d/sshd
/usr/sbin/sshd

and then restarted ssh. Still the same error.

Kindly let me know how to fix this issue.

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by ---tk---

error 7 is ERROR_SSH_UNSUPPORTED_CIPHER - There is no cipher supported by both: client and server.

I would suggest run at CLI "man ssh-keygen" and look at your options, it sounds like you might need a new authentication key for ssh...

by robo_dev

if the binaries are different, just copying in replacement binaries may not work; there may be dependencies such as libraries that are also different.

Is this an internet-connected server? If your binaries have changed, I would look closely to see if a rootkit has been installed.

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