Re: FW: Potential bug in sshd

2006-09-27 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > > I was sent the following mail off-list, and am forwarding it (with > permission), because it contains a useful workaround for people having > problems with McAffee: disable the "buffer overrun protection". > > On 27 September 2006 11:40, Michael Teske wr

FW: Potential bug in sshd

2006-09-27 Thread Dave Korn
I was sent the following mail off-list, and am forwarding it (with permission), because it contains a useful workaround for people having problems with McAffee: disable the "buffer overrun protection". On 27 September 2006 11:40, Michael Teske wrote: > Hi! > > I'm not subscribed to the cygwi

Re: Potential bug in sshd

2006-09-12 Thread Michael Sowka
Dave, BTW, if you have a Logitech webcam, now would be a good time to disable the associated "Logitech Process Monitor" service. Or is there anything else by the way of hardware/software that you've installed just recently? YOU NAILED IT That was my next step... couple of days ago I wasted

Re: Potential bug in sshd

2006-09-12 Thread Tristen Hayfield
Michael Sowka wrote: Thanks Rob, Ah yes, this explains the "zombie" processes as I cannot make actual client connections. Something is very bizarre with my cygwin setup here. I've noticed other symptoms too: on reinstalling cygwin the info-update and cygwing post-install scripts hang. In fact,

RE: Potential bug in sshd

2006-09-12 Thread Rob Bosch
Sorry, I thought it was a different thread but that whole copy/pasting thing, I've always struggled with it! :) Rob On 12 September 2006 16:58, Rob Bosch wrote: > Dave is cross-referencing > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-09/msg00194.html :) That's a slightly roundabout way of saying "r

RE: Potential bug in sshd

2006-09-12 Thread Dave Korn
On 12 September 2006 16:58, Rob Bosch wrote: > Dave is cross-referencing > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-09/msg00194.html :) That's a slightly roundabout way of saying "replying to"! (Well, actually, it doesn't mean the same thing at all ...) cheers, DaveK -- Can't think o

RE: Potential bug in sshd

2006-09-12 Thread Rob Bosch
out the hacking attempts. The error is beyond my knowledge...sorry. -Original Message- From: Michael Sowka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 8:42 AM To: Rob Bosch Subject: Re: Potential bug in sshd Thanks Rob, Ah yes, this explains the "zombie"

RE: Potential bug in sshd

2006-09-12 Thread Dave Korn
On 12 September 2006 15:43, Michael Sowka wrote: > ! One thing I did notice as I was looking for logs to send in to the > list is that the System Events log is that recently I've had a barrage > of attempted break-ins via ssh (failed logins as root, admin, etc.). I > trust that OpenSSH is pretty

Re: Potential bug in sshd

2006-09-12 Thread Michael Sowka
Thanks Rob, Ah yes, this explains the "zombie" processes as I cannot make actual client connections. Something is very bizarre with my cygwin setup here. I've noticed other symptoms too: on reinstalling cygwin the info-update and cygwing post-install scripts hang. In fact, after the cygwin insta

Re: Potential bug in sshd

2006-09-12 Thread Rob Bosch
Sshd will spawn processes that deal with individual connections so even though you stop the service there may still be sshd processes running. The way to tell if your sshd daemon is stopped is to run a netstat -a | find "ssh" | find "LISTEN". This will only find sshd processes that are listening

Re: Potential bug in sshd

2006-09-11 Thread Michael Sowka
Sorry about the double-post everyone. Because I sent the first email from a non list-registered address and assumed it wouldn't get through, I resent it from the address that I actually registered with Sorry, Mike On 9/11/06, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please don't send the sa

Re: Potential bug in sshd

2006-09-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
Please don't send the same message twice. On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 11:39:53AM -0400, Michael Sowka wrote: >... just when I thought I was nicely settled with WinXP and Cygwin >(being obligated to use Windows, cygwin makes the experience more >bearable ;) )... > >I don't consider myself a newbie, but

Potential bug in sshd

2006-09-11 Thread Michael Sowka
Hello, ... just when I thought I was nicely settled with WinXP and Cygwin (being obligated to use Windows, cygwin makes the experience more bearable ;) )... I don't consider myself a newbie, but we'll soon find out. I've installed cygwin on a number of computers I frequently 'ssh'/'scp' to/from.