Re: wierd ssh failure

From: Bruce Albrecht (bruce@zuhause.mn.org)
Date: 01/26/01 

From: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:37:43 -0600 (CST)
To: Dan Debertin <airboss@bitstream.net>

Dan Debertin writes:
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Bruce Albrecht wrote:
> > I forgot to mention that I'm running 4.2-stable (circa last week).
> > When I ran strings on sshd, I couldn't find the message that I got
> > from ssh, which is why I'm wondering if this was a temporary routing
> > error, or an attempt to do a man-in-the-middle attack.
>
> Run strings on your client; that's where it's coming from:
> kidjo [02:32pm] # strings /usr/bin/ssh | grep away
> You don't exist, go away!
>
> I've gotten that message when playing around with NIS; it looked like the
> SSH client couldn't tell who I was when I ran it, so it quit. I don't
> think you've been cracked; ssh just can't tell who you are.

Thanks. I thought it was coming from the server side, didn't think it
was a client-side issue.

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