Re: SSH Not Working

I had similar symptoms recently because there was an instance of ssh already
running. Another instance of ssh was being started by inetd and so when the
sshd service tries to start, it cannot bind to port 22. The solution is to
hash the offending lines in /etc/inetd.conf, kill the processes, then start
sshd. Webmin is helpful here.
Ric

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darren Tucker" <dtucker@zip.com.au>
To: "David Sugar" <dsugar@alum.hws.edu>
Cc: <secureshell@securityfocus.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: SSH Not Working


> David Sugar wrote:
> > I have a serious problem and need help.  I am trying to run ssh and
> > continue to get the error "daemon() failed" whenever I try to start it.
> > Does anyone have any ideas of what I can do to fix this problem.  Any
> > help would be appreciated.  Thanks.
> >
> > By the way I am using SuSE 9.1 and its version 3.8p1 of sshd
>
> That's usually caused by incorrect permissions on /dev/null (should be a
> character special device, mode 666)
>
> If that's not it, try starting sshd under strace (eg "strace -f
> /path/to/sshd") and see what's failing.
>
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> Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au)
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