Hello:

Ia m having trouble installing/running ssh/sshd 1.2.6 on a Sparc 
Ultra1 running Solaris 2.5.1.    

I unpacked the source and ran ./configure without any errors.  "make"
compiled everything without errors or warnings.  However,  "make
install" hangs on:

ssh-keygen -b 1024 -f /etc/ssh_host_key -N:

>Generating 1024 bit host key.
>Initializing random number generator
>Generating p: . . . .  (goes on forever).

For some reason it cannot generate a key.    I've pasted the output of
pstack and pmap here.  It appears to be stuck at mpz_powm or the rsa
generation function.  gmp2.02 came with the distribution and the
"make" compiles a libgmp.a and libmp.a in gmp2 subdirectory of the
source distribution.

#./pstack 18610
18610:  ./ssh-keygen -b 1024 -f /etc/ssh_host_key -N
00025b6c ???????? (efffb480, 0, efffb458, fb9294da, efffb4d0, 10)
0002025c mpz_powm (efffb4c8, efffb4d0, 40, efffb440, 3eab8, 0) + 47c
00016560 rsa_random_prime (3ccb8, 28000, 200, 28000, 28000, 1ff) + 1fc
00016a44 rsa_generate_key (3cc84, 3cb18, 3ccd0, 400, 3cc00, 28) + 90
00015210 main     (3b400, effffcc4, 7, 3cc00, 3b400, 26c00) + 2d8
000140f4 _start   (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) + 5c

# ./pmap 18610
18610:  ./ssh-keygen -b 1024 -f /etc/ssh_host_key -N
00010000  112K read/exec          dev:  32,40  ino: 1302930
0003A000   16K read/write/exec    dev:  32,40  ino: 1302930
0003E000    8K     [ heap ]
0003E000    8K read/write/exec
EF580000  512K read/exec          /usr/lib/libc.so.1
EF60E000   32K read/write/exec    /usr/lib/libc.so.1
EF616000    8K read/write/exec
EF630000   16K read/exec /usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-1/lib/libc_psr.so.1
EF642000    8K read/write/exec
/usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-1/lib/libc_psr.so.1
EF650000    8K read/write/exec
EF660000   32K read/exec          /usr/lib/libw.so.1
EF676000    8K read/write/exec    /usr/lib/libw.so.1
EF680000  392K read/exec          /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1
EF6F0000   40K read/write/exec    /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1
EF6FA000   32K read/write/exec
EF710000   16K read/exec          /usr/lib/libmp.so.1
EF722000    8K read/write/exec    /usr/lib/libmp.so.1
EF730000   16K read/exec          /usr/lib/libintl.so.1
EF742000    8K read/write/exec    /usr/lib/libintl.so.1
EF760000    8K read/exec          /usr/lib/libsec.so.1
EF770000   16K read/write/exec    /usr/lib/libsec.so.1
EF780000   56K read/exec          /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1
EF79C000    8K read/write/exec    /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1
EF7B0000    8K read/exec          /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
EF7C0000  120K read/exec          /usr/lib/ld.so.1
EF7EC000   16K read/write/exec    /usr/lib/ld.so.1
EFFF8000   32K read/write/exec
EFFF8000   32K     [ stack ]

Attempting to connect to another machine with the ssh client gets as
far as "Sent encrypted session key" then fails with an error message
on the remote machine

"sshd: fatal: rsa_private_decryptO failed"

Again, this appears to be a problem with key generation.  We have
several other solaris boxes running 2.5.1, 2.6 and 2.7.   These all
run ssh/sshd without any problems.    I have compared the shared
libraries used by ssh/sshd on the problematic machine against those on
another 2.5.1 machine with a working ssh/sshd.   The shared libs are
the same on both machines.   I could not find any obvious difference
between the 2.5.1 machines.  I have searched the net and only found
references to this function being related to the vulnerability in ssh.
But that was no help in my situation.

Any help greatly appreaciated.

Thanks,
Mike 

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mike lee                                         address@hidden

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