hi there... i recently experienced some weird things with latest openssh and different ssh linux clients if i connect or scp to my server (AMD64 Suse 9.0) from different Suse 8.2/9.0 clients with no given username (so the current username of the user, who executes ssh on his client is used) everything works fine if i give a username (user@server or -l user - no matter with or without pubkey) i get Have a lot of fun... connection closed in the logs i see something like Apr 15 19:01:05 nevanpdc sshd[2902]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for root from ::ffff:192.168.0.1 port 49435 ssh2 Apr 15 19:01:05 nevanpdc kernel: sshd[2905]: segfault at 0000002a00000000 rip 0000002a966b5870 rsp 0000007fbfffe218 error 4 normally it should work ?!?!? is it a known problem? strange is: after a reboot it works for some time, until somebody tries a connection with pubkey to an other account then his own (e.g. root) then i get seg fault and after this the problems as described above start thx micha -- "Matrix - more than a vision" ************************************************** Michael Gasch - Central IT Department - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6 04103 Leipzig Germany **************************************************