Extreme Switch / OpenSSH bug

By andy
Published on July 17th, 2009
2 Comments

I have been trying to get a patch applied to Debian’s openssh-client packages since February which would fix a bug that prevents me from logging into Extreme switches via ssh:

trials:/usr/src/openssh-5.1p1# ssh hextreeme -l netadmin

Keyboard-interactive authentication

Enter password for netadmin:

channel 0: open failed: resource shortage: Channel open failed

The bug is described in Debian bug 495917, and it also prevents connection to some NetScreen firewalls.  I have this bug with Debian 4 (openssh-client 4.3p2-9etch3) and Debian 5 (openssh-client 1:5.1p1-5).

If anyone else is experiencing the same bug and needs a quick fix, then you can download my Debian packages which replace openssh-client.  You of course need to hold the packages if you don’t want them overwriting by a security fix.

By using this software you agree to hassle both the debian-ssh team and extreme to sort their stuff out!


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2 Responses to “Extreme Switch / OpenSSH bug”

  1. crispy Says:
    July 17th, 2009 at 7:25 pm

    Umm.. that bug was fixed in lenny in November, according to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495917 – was there an additional patch you added to the lenny package? If so, that may need submitting..

  2. andy Says:
    July 17th, 2009 at 7:29 pm

    It’s *not*, I have been trying to get the package maintainer to hack in in this patch since February. My version works fine.

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