[TriLUG] weird ssh issues logging into login.trilug.org?

[John Mitchell]

Dargo was down, the usual motley crew did wonders and should be back up.
  I think it was matt frye & Nivex

johnm

On 3/17/07, Benjamin Reed <rangerrick at gmail.com> wrote:
> As of a few hours ago, I can't log in to the login.trilug.org server,
> and the error I'm getting is really... strange.
>
> ---(snip!)---
> $ ssh -v -v ranger at login.trilug.org
> OpenSSH_4.5p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7l 28 Sep 2006
> debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
> debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
> debug1: Connecting to login.trilug.org [64.244.27.139] port 22.
> debug1: Connection established.
> debug1: identity file /Users/ranger/.ssh/identity type -1
> debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-----BEGIN'
> debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type 'Proc-Type:'
> debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type 'DEK-Info:'
> debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-----END'
> debug1: identity file /Users/ranger/.ssh/id_rsa type 1
> debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-----BEGIN'
> debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-----END'
> debug1: identity file /Users/ranger/.ssh/id_dsa type 2
> ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
> ---(snip!)---
>
> I don't have an "identity" file, so that one obviously shouldn't work,
> I do have an id_rsa, which does start with:
>
> -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
> Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED
>
> ...so I guess that's where the debug info is coming from?  Still, I
> don't really understand how it could be something on my end unless the
> Mac OS X 10.4.9 update broke it somehow -- none of these files have
> been changed in some time.
>
> I can still log into other sites, and when I try to log in to trilug
> from those sites, it fails out with similar errors.
>
> Any ideas?  Can I assume the trilug login server has issues?
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