[freeside] Remote Host Disconnected: Connection lost after ssh connect

[Koos Strydom]

Gordon Smith wrote:

> If your using OpenSSH 2.1, check versions on BOTH machines. SSH2 doesn't
> come with ver 1. It will auth then disconnect if version 2 is trying to use
> version 1 compatability mode. It needs to have ssh1 installed, and ssh1
> compatability set up in /etc/ssh2/ssh_config.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Koos Strydom" <strydom at prosperitas.com.au>
> To: <ivan-freeside at sisd.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 11:31 PM
> Subject: [freeside] Remote Host Disconnected: Connection lost after ssh
> connect
>
> > Hi Ivan,
> >
> > I'm in the process of testing freeside to implement it on our production
> > system ASAP.
> > I'm quite confident that the config is as described in the
> > documentation, but cannot seem to be able to get user accounts created
> > on our shell, mail or radius machines.
> >
> > I can as user freeside login to the aforementioned machines using the
> > command ssh root at host without any hassle, but when I use signup.cgi, the
> > WEB server just stands there and wait for a reply from the shell
> > machine. When I use the manual create customer page it seems that
> > everything is processed, but examining the other hosts I found no
> > records created in /etc/passwd or no user directories created.
> >
> > On checking the shell machines error log I found that user root did get
> > authenticated with sshd, but the remote host got diconnected
> > immediately.
> >
> > I've also inserted the following lines into svc_acct.pm to verify that
> > the variables is passed to svc_acct.pm
> > warn $username;
> > warn $uid;
> > warn $dir;
> > warn $shell;
> > warn $shellmachine;
> > and the errorlog verified that the variables is passed.
> >
> > What else can I look for?
> >
> > Your help will be appreciated,
> >
> > regards,
> > Johannes Strydom
> >
> >

Thanks Gordon,

I've had SSH2 version 2.0.13 installed. I uninstalled it and installed version
1.2.27 and
prliminary testing indicates that I can login  as root from a user freeside
login as follow
(trust this is correct) ssh root at host useradd -d /home/username -m -s /bin/sh
-u 510 username. After I've executed this I checked the shell machine and to
my delight everything was as I expected

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