[plug] PuTTY and Gentoo using ssh - PuTTY crashes

[Denis Brown]

At 18:29 27/05/2004 +0800, Bernard Blackham wrote:
>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? :)

Hello, Bernard and list.

As it happens I was using version 0.52 which must be buggy in some strange 
manner.   Using version 0.53b and now 0.54 works a treat.   The changelogs 
also point to increased sftp performance -- yay!!!

Cheers and thanks,
Denis