From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 31 23:43:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34F5E16C4B4 for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 23:43:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (dsl081-142-072.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.142.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 606F443D73 for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 23:43:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p17.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.6/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k4VNgkCp047680; Wed, 31 May 2006 18:42:47 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20060531184157.02680d10@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 18:42:38 -0500 To: Andrew Reitz , FreeBSD Questions From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Problems with sshd on FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 23:43:25 -0000 You may have an old key on the system you are ssh'ing to the downgraded server. Clear your ssh keys and try it again. -Derek At 05:26 PM 5/31/2006, Andrew Reitz wrote: >Hello, > >For reasons that I don't want to go into here, I have recently >downgraded my principal FreeBSD server from 6.1 to 4.11-RELEASE. I >did this by installing a fresh copy of FreeBSD 4.11 on a clean HD, >and then I rsync'd all of my data over. > >Everything has been working fine, until I tried to SSH to the box >this afternoon. While everything was working fine this morning, now >sshd hangs up immediately on all clients that attempt to connect. In / >var/log/messages, I see errors like this for every ssh connection >attempt: > >May 31 15:21:06 redefine sshd[8543]: error: ssh_dss_sign: sign failed >May 31 15:21:06 redefine sshd[8543]: fatal: mm_answer_sign: key_sign >failed > >Google hasn't enlightened me at all. This was *just* working a few >hours ago, and now, nada. Does anyone on this list have any ideas? > >Thanks, > -Andy Reitz. > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. >MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.