Hp2133 & Ssh

Hi All,

I've just today received a HP2133 running SLED10, and although SLED is going to get replaced as soon as I have 11 on a USB key one thing is annoying me.

Every time I try to SSH to another box as soon as it tries to connect after inputting the password SSH will hang. ssh_config is identical to the one that works flawlessly on my 10.3 install, iptables is turned off and theres nothing in the logs.

I seem to recall a similar issue with either 9.3 or 10 but cant remember how I fixed it. Before I break out wireshark, can anyone think of where I'm going wrong?

Cheers!

I have the exact same symptom. I turned on logging and in /var/log/messages I see the box connect but the box where I ssh'd from just hangs. Eventually the log shows a timeout.

Any help would be appreciated.

Hi All,

I've just today received a HP2133 running SLED10, and although SLED is going to get replaced as soon as I have 11 on a USB key one thing is annoying me.

Every time I try to SSH to another box as soon as it tries to connect after inputting the password SSH will hang. ssh_config is identical to the one that works flawlessly on my 10.3 install, iptables is turned off and theres nothing in the logs.

I seem to recall a similar issue with either 9.3 or 10 but cant remember how I fixed it. Before I break out wireshark, can anyone think of where I'm going wrong?

Cheers!
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Have you tried using the -v option with ssh to observe the progress of the connection? That should tell you where it stops.

Using -v this is what I get after putting in my password:

Password:
debug1: Authentication succeeded (keyboard-interactive).
debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
debug1: Entering interactive session.
debug1: Sending environment.
debug1: Sending env LANG = en_US.UTF-8

then it just hangs.

Have you tried using the -v option with ssh to observe the progress of the connection? That should tell you where it stops.
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What's in the log on the remote end? Have you been able to ssh in using another client? Also what are the versions of ssh on each end?

The log on the other end says:

May 29 21:50:43 sshd[5673]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for jackson from 192.168.0.3 port 36207 ssh2
May 29 21:51:43 sshd[5700]: Received disconnect from 192.168.0.3: 2: Timeout, server not responding

The versions are sshing from openssh 4.1P and to openssh 4.2

Using -v this is what I get after putting in my password:

Password:
debug1: Authentication succeeded (keyboard-interactive).
debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
debug1: Entering interactive session.
debug1: Sending environment.
debug1: Sending env LANG = en_US.UTF-8

then it just hangs.
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Those are actually 2 different processes, although the second one may have been spawned by the first.

Again, have you been able to ssh in with another client? Or even from the server to itself.

The box I'm sshing from I use all the time to ssh into many different boxes. The other box (hp2133) that I'm trying to ssh into is a new box and haven't been able to ssh into or out of that box.

Attempting to ssh from the HP2133 to any other box hangs the same way.

Those are actually 2 different processes, although the second one may have been spawned by the first.

Again, have you been able to ssh in with another client? Or even from the server to itself.
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So the problem is with the server on the hp2133 then? I would suspect iptables or apparmor. You'd have to dig into the logs for more messages, or worst comes to the worst, do a strace on the server process.

Server and client on the 2133. I can't ssh into nor out of that box. I tried disabling apparmor and it didn't help. I'll keep digging.

Thanks for your help!!

So the problem is with the server on the hp2133 then? I would suspect iptables or apparmor. You'd have to dig into the logs for more messages, or worst comes to the worst, do a strace on the server process.
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