topic Re: SSH keygen from windows in Operating System - HP-UX

SSH keygen from windows

Jeeshan — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:34:43 GMT

Dear Experts

I'm getting the following messages in my HP-UX box(11iv1,v2 etc.) in syslog.log

Dec 13 11:23:25 sshd[16808]: Did not receive identification string from
Dec 13 11:23:35 sshd[16809]: Accepted password for from port 4575 ssh2

That is happen when i connect from windows workstation.

I think this is related to ssh-key.

Can anyone tell me how can i resolve this kind of messages?

NB. - Though the message i can connect and work as usual.

Re: SSH keygen from windows

Kapil Jha — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:54:37 GMT

Can you please try change the ssh port and then check.
BR,
Kapil

Re: SSH keygen from windows

Matti_Kurkela — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:26:43 GMT

Not related to the ssh-key.

Both the ssh client and server are expected to send an identification string in the beginning of a SSH connection, to allow the identification of protocol version and/or workarounds for known bugs in some client or server versions.

You can see the server's identification string by telnetting to the server's port 22 (the ssh port):

$ telnet localhost 22
Trying...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.4p1-hpn12v11

Protocol mismatch.
Connection closed by foreign host.

In this example, the server's identification string is "SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.4p1-hpn12v11". After receiving the server's identification string, the client should respond with a similar string of its own.

Your sshd is saying that your windows-based ssh client did not offer this information.

As you can still connect, your client obviously does not need any special workarounds at the server-side. So the message is information only.

MK