[plug] PuTTY and Gentoo using ssh - PuTTY crashes

Bernard Blackham bernard at blackham.com.au
Thu May 27 18:29:03 WST 2004


On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 01:02:03PM +0800, Denis Brown wrote:
> If I PuTTY to the Gentoo box, supply a valid username but deliberately 
> supply a bogus password at first, authentication fails but then returns for 
> a second try at the password.   If I now enter the correct password for 
> this user, I get in no problems.   I can repeat this sequence of events 
> consistently.

On the Gentoo box, run:
   sshd -p 2222 -ddd
and get putty to connect to port 2222. This will make sshd give some
verbose debug info about it's connections and should show where in
the ssh protocol it's falling over. Then perhaps submit it as a bug
to PuTTY? :)

Bernard.



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