libssh2 gmake failure

[Cary Farah]

Trying to get libssh2 to work
getting error when doing a gmake check:
Contacted the developer but that process is pretty slow!

PASS: simple
Fingerprint: A0 90 21 52 25 7A 06 7F B9 7B 52 CE FA A6 93 7F
Authentication methods: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
Authentication by public key failed!
FAIL: ssh2.sh
====================================================
1 of 2 tests failed
Please report to libssh2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
====================================================
gmake[2]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/Cary/libssh2-1.2.2/tests'
gmake[1]: *** [check-am] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/Cary/libssh2-1.2.2/tests'
gmake: *** [check-recursive] Error 1

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

The ssh binaries provided by depot from the web site http://software.hp.com work well. Are you compiling for a specific feature?

https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=T1471AA

SEP

[Cary Farah]

Yeah Im tring to get curl to work.

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

Hi,

Do you have all runtime dependencies installed?

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Networking/WWW/curl-7.19.6/

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Cary Farah]

yes I Have all installed:
db gettext heimdal libiconv libidn openldap openssl termcap zlib

[Steven Schweda]

> Trying to get libssh2 to work

Which libssh2 kit? On what? Using which
compiler? "configure"d and built how?
"uname -a"? Any useful info at all?

[Cary Farah]

Which libssh2 kit?
Tried libssh2-0.15 and 2-1.2.2
On what? Using which
compiler? "configure"d
I'm assuming gcc i do a ./configure
and built how? i do a gmake then a gmake check
the gmake check is what spits out the error.
tried make but that doesn't work i get:
# make
Make: Must be a separator on rules line 742. Stop.
"uname -a"?
HP-UX uhpc B.11.31 U ia64

Any useful info at all?
attached all results from configure,gmake and gmake check

[Steven Schweda]

Ok. I tried it on some systems here, with
no highly satisfactory results. On my HP-UX
(IA64 and PA-RISC) systems, the build seemed
to work, but I also got the "FAIL: ssh2.sh"
complaint. On my Solaris system, the build
failed (miserably). On my Tru64 system, the
build seemed to work, but the tests/ssh2.sh
script assumes many things about
/usr/sbin/sshd which aren't true there, so it
fails sooner there than on HP-UX.

Thus, to me, it doesn't seem to be highly
portable code, and that test isn't much
better (providing only a pass-fail status,
with no diagnostic info), so I'd either
complain to the maintainer, or ignore the
test and pretend that the code really works,
or else, if possible, try to find some better
code somewhere else.

Or dig in and do some serious debugging.

[Steven Schweda · Accepted solution]

> Or dig in and do some serious debugging.

Or, wait for me to get lucky...

Inspection of the failing test script reveals
that it's trying to run "/usr/sbin/sshd" (or
whatever SSHD is set to), listening on an
odd-ball port (4711), with a bunch of other
special-case options, and then it runs its
own "tests/ssh2" program, which tries to talk
to this instance of the "sshd" server.

Unfortunately, the "tests/ssh2" program (see
"tests/ssh2.c") expects, by default, to send
the user name "username", and if this is not
a valid user on your system, then the server
spits up. Running it in a diagnostic mode
("-d -e"), and then running "tests/ssh2"
manually:

[...]
Invalid user username from 127.0.0.1
debug1: audit event euid 0 user (unknown user) event 9 (INVALID_USER)
debug1: aud_sav_flag=1
input_userauth_request: invalid user username
debug1: audit event euid 0 user (invalid user) event 9 (INVALID_USER)
debug1: aud_sav_flag=1
debug1: PAM: initializing for "username"
debug1: PAM: setting PAM_RHOST to "localhost"
Failed none for invalid user username from 127.0.0.1 port 52157 ssh2
debug1: audit event euid 0 user (invalid user) event 3 (AUTH_FAIL_NONE)
debug1: userauth-request for user username service ssh-connection method publickey
debug1: attempt 1 failures 0
Failed publickey for invalid user username from 127.0.0.1 port 52157 ssh2
debug1: Entering record_failed_login uid 0
debug1: audit event euid 0 user (invalid user) event 6 (AUTH_FAIL_PUBKEY)
debug1: aud_sav_flag=1
Received disconnect from 127.0.0.1: 11: Normal Shutdown
debug1: do_cleanup
debug1: PAM: cleanup
debug1: audit event euid 0 user (invalid user) event 12 (CONNECTION_ABANDON)
debug1: aud_sav_flag=1


Without these debug options, the diagnostics
tend to go to the system log file
("/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log"), where you may
find the spoor of the previous test failures.

Luckily, the "tests/ssh2" program looks at
its environment, and if the environment
variable "USER" is defined, then its value is
used instead of "username". So, define
"USER" as some valid user name, and things
may improve.

As before:

dyi # gmake check
Making check in src
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/src'
gmake[1]: Nothing to be done for `check'.
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/src'
Making check in example
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/example'
Making check in simple
gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/example/simple'
gmake[2]: Nothing to be done for `check'.
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/example/simple'
gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/example'
gmake[2]: Nothing to be done for `check-am'.
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/example'
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/example'
Making check in tests
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/tests'
gmake simple
gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/tests'
gmake[2]: `simple' is up to date.
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/tests'
gmake check-TESTS
gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/tests'
PASS: simple
Fingerprint: A0 90 21 52 25 7A 06 7F B9 7B 52 CE FA A6 93 7F
Authentication methods: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
Authentication by public key failed!
FAIL: ssh2.sh
====================================================
1 of 2 tests failed
Please report to libssh2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
====================================================
gmake[2]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/tests'
gmake[1]: *** [check-am] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/tests'
gmake: *** [check-recursive] Error 1


Again, but defining "USER" ("sms" is valid
here):

dyi # USER=sms gmake check
Making check in src
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/src'
gmake[1]: Nothing to be done for `check'.
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/src'
Making check in example
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/example'
Making check in simple
gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/example/simple'
gmake[2]: Nothing to be done for `check'.
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/example/simple'
gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/example'
gmake[2]: Nothing to be done for `check-am'.
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/example'
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/example'
Making check in tests
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/tests'
gmake simple
gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/tests'
gmake[2]: `simple' is up to date.
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/tests'
gmake check-TESTS
gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/tests'
PASS: simple
Fingerprint: A0 90 21 52 25 7A 06 7F B9 7B 52 CE FA A6 93 7F
Authentication methods: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
Authentication by public key succeeded.
PASS: ssh2.sh
==================
All 2 tests passed
==================
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/tests'
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/tests'
Making check in docs
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/docs'
gmake[1]: Nothing to be done for `check'.
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2/docs'
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2'
gmake[1]: Nothing to be done for `check-am'.
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/libssh2/libssh2-1.2.2'


This could all be documented somewhere, but I
didn't see it. Perhaps the sshd programs on
the developers' systems are less fussy than
this one, and don't care if the specified
user name is valid. (Or perhaps they all
have a user named "username".)

[Cary Farah]

Thanks for your help!!! I will pass the info on.