Re: OpenSSH anomaly

From: Benjamin Franz (snowhare_at_nihongo.org)
Date: 02/23/04

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    Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:23:39 -0800 (PST)
To: Will Tipton <tiptonw@neverland.ncssm.edu>

    On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Will Tipton wrote:

    > This sounds like an issue we had recently. It turned out that the
    > passwords had expired and that openssh is broken as far as dealing with
    > it. If this is the case, as console login should prompt you to change the
    > password. Or, try a chage -l

    Nope. But I discovered this morning as backups were attempting to run that
    the filesystem apparently has corruption - I have a few files that
    suddenly have apparent sizes and ownership info in the absurd range:

    -rw-r--r-- 1 2439249920 136118272 584782831260017978 Aug 14 2003 redhat-config-xfree86.mo

    lrwxr-xr-x 1 543621120 1920139264 13 Nov 16 09:12 K50tux

    I also discovered that my inode handlers are apparently leaking. This
    looks like a combination of kernel and/or filesystem problems. 

    -- 
Benjamin Franz
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