I just received my security update message, and the logs on the gateway
state: "sshd[xxxx]: Faking authloop for illegal user root"
Chris.
--- Chris Clarke
Help!
I have a x86 SUSE 6.1 system running as a gateway/firewall/DNS. There is no keyboard or monitor physically attached to the system, and logons are disabled on the machine. I access it remotely via openSSH, using a root login. This has worked fine for several months now.
Today I installed the following security updates: shlibs-2000.9.5-0.i386.rpm libc-2000.9.5-0.i386.rpm libd-2000.9.5-0.i386.rpm nkitb-2000.7.11-0.i386.rpm
The system is as stock a SuSE as you can get. The only things installed on it are official SuSE RPMs, and SuSEConfig is configured to run.
I just tried to log into it using openssh (1.2.3-12, yes I know there are problems in that version), and when I typed in the root password got told "Permission denied, please try again"!
As there is no keyboard / monitor on the machine I don't know if this is an ssh problem, or a more general problem. Does anyone know what might have happened to this system, and is there any way I can get back into it?
Some things I can note: 1) Most things appear to be running fine, as my other computers have no problems with routing or DNS resolution through the gateway, and 2) OpenSSH is definitely starting, because I get asked for a password.
Thanks, Chris.
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