Re: OpenSSH_4.1p1 hangs on exit using PAM/ChallengeResponse

Dustin Hoff wrote:
> I am having some problems with 4.1p1 on Solaris 2.6-8 using the RSA
> PAM module (v5.3.2) for SecurID authentication.  The initial login
> works fine, but the session hangs when I exit and it doesn't close
> until I kill the sshd on the server or close it with ~..  And no,
> I'm not running anything in the background.
[...]
> Is this one of the "known" problems that the FAQ alludes to?  Or
> am I missing something trivial?

It's not a known problem as far as I know.

I would guess that the pam_securid module is leaking a file descriptor 
which remains open during the session, and when you log out sshd is 
waiting for the descriptor to close.

This is easy to check: log in find out the pids of your shell and its 
parent sshd, then use "lsof -p [pid]" to see what descriptors they have 
open.  Then log out and repeat the process and see if any descriptors 
remain.

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