SSH no longer working after installing ECO

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Ken Bridges

2007-02-18 22:48:43 UTC

Hello,

I just finished installing ssh-040_a051 ECO on an Alpha Server
running OpenVMS 7.3-1 (as well as 3 other Alphas which were
successful). On the one particular problem child, an inbound SSH
connection never receives a logon prompt. Watching opcom reveals the
following when someone attempts to connect:

%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 18-FEB-2007 16:42:43.25 %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user AUDIT$SERVER on TEXAS
Security alarm (SECURITY) and security audit (SECURITY) on TEXAS,
system id: 184
35
Auditable event: Detached process login failure
Event time: 18-FEB-2007 16:42:43.25
PID: 000002E6
Process name: SSHD 0004
Username: SYSTEM
Process owner: [SYSTEM]
Image name: TEXAS$DKA0:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.][SYSEXE]LOGINOUT.EXE
Status: %RMS-E-CRE, ACP file create failed

All was working fine before the eco installation and subsequent
reboot...any idea what might be wrong?

Thanks.

Ken

Ken Bridges

2007-02-18 22:55:26 UTC

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Disregard...I just found the sshd.log file that was sitting at
version 32767. I deleted that and all is well again.

Ken

Post by Ken Bridges
Hello,
I just finished installing ssh-040_a051 ECO on an Alpha Server
running OpenVMS 7.3-1 (as well as 3 other Alphas which were
successful). On the one particular problem child, an inbound SSH
connection never receives a logon prompt. Watching opcom reveals
%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 18-FEB-2007 16:42:43.25 %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user AUDIT$SERVER on TEXAS
Security alarm (SECURITY) and security audit (SECURITY) on TEXAS,
system id: 184
35
Auditable event: Detached process login failure
Event time: 18-FEB-2007 16:42:43.25
PID: 000002E6
Process name: SSHD 0004
Username: SYSTEM
Process owner: [SYSTEM]
Image name: TEXAS$DKA0:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.][SYSEXE]LOGINOUT.EXE
Status: %RMS-E-CRE, ACP file create failed
All was working fine before the eco installation and subsequent
reboot...any idea what might be wrong?
Thanks.
Ken

Ken Connelly

2007-02-18 23:04:33 UTC

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That was pretty quick! I knew that such a file was created for each
connection, but didn't know whether failure to create was fatal or not.
Guess it is...

-ken

Disregard...I just found the sshd.log file that was sitting at version
32767. I deleted that and all is well again.
Ken

Post by Ken Bridges
Hello,
I just finished installing ssh-040_a051 ECO on an Alpha Server
running OpenVMS 7.3-1 (as well as 3 other Alphas which were
successful). On the one particular problem child, an inbound SSH
connection never receives a logon prompt. Watching opcom reveals the
%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 18-FEB-2007 16:42:43.25 %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user AUDIT$SERVER on TEXAS
Security alarm (SECURITY) and security audit (SECURITY) on TEXAS,
system id: 184
35
Auditable event: Detached process login failure
Event time: 18-FEB-2007 16:42:43.25
PID: 000002E6
Process name: SSHD 0004
Username: SYSTEM
Process owner: [SYSTEM]
TEXAS$DKA0:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.][SYSEXE]LOGINOUT.EXE
Status: %RMS-E-CRE, ACP file create failed
All was working fine before the eco installation and subsequent
reboot...any idea what might be wrong?
Thanks.
Ken

Bob Koehler

2007-02-19 14:19:04 UTC

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Post by Ken Connelly
That was pretty quick! I knew that such a file was created for each
connection, but didn't know whether failure to create was fatal or not.
Guess it is...

Process should fix this. I recall when DECnet Phase 3 had the same
problem with FAL.LOG (we had a small network with default FAL
accounts). That was the first time I wrote a script to purge down
to n versions and then renumber them to ;1 through ;n.

Paul Sture

2007-02-18 23:11:51 UTC

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Post by Ken Bridges
Hello,
I just finished installing ssh-040_a051 ECO on an Alpha Server
running OpenVMS 7.3-1 (as well as 3 other Alphas which were
successful). On the one particular problem child, an inbound SSH
connection never receives a logon prompt. Watching opcom reveals the
%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 18-FEB-2007 16:42:43.25 %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user AUDIT$SERVER on TEXAS
Security alarm (SECURITY) and security audit (SECURITY) on TEXAS,
system id: 184
35
Auditable event: Detached process login failure
Event time: 18-FEB-2007 16:42:43.25
PID: 000002E6
Process name: SSHD 0004
Username: SYSTEM
Process owner: [SYSTEM]
Image name: TEXAS$DKA0:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.][SYSEXE]LOGINOUT.EXE
Status: %RMS-E-CRE, ACP file create failed
All was working fine before the eco installation and subsequent
reboot...any idea what might be wrong?

A typical cause is an existing log file with version ;32767.

--
Paul Sture

Dan O'Reilly

2007-02-19 00:08:08 UTC

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FYI - I'm working on a more permanent solution for that...

Disregard...I just found the sshd.log file that was sitting at version
32767. I deleted that and all is well again.
Ken

Post by Ken Bridges
Hello,
I just finished installing ssh-040_a051 ECO on an Alpha Server running
OpenVMS 7.3-1 (as well as 3 other Alphas which were successful). On the
one particular problem child, an inbound SSH connection never receives a
logon prompt. Watching opcom reveals the following when someone attempts
%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 18-FEB-2007 16:42:43.25 %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user AUDIT$SERVER on TEXAS
Security alarm (SECURITY) and security audit (SECURITY) on TEXAS, system
id: 184
35
Auditable event: Detached process login failure
Event time: 18-FEB-2007 16:42:43.25
PID: 000002E6
Process name: SSHD 0004
Username: SYSTEM
Process owner: [SYSTEM]
Image name: TEXAS$DKA0:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.][SYSEXE]LOGINOUT.EXE
Status: %RMS-E-CRE, ACP file create failed
All was working fine before the eco installation and subsequent
reboot...any idea what might be wrong?
Thanks.
Ken