GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 582012
Repeated connections with wrong username
Last modified: 2014-10-24 20:50:08 UTC
Hi, i'm using the latest Ubuntu HotSSH Package. I try to connect to a foreign server via public key. The connect is successful. But in the secure-log of the server i see periodical connects from my machine. The problem is that these additional connects uses the current username (otto) not the specified one (root). I only recognized these errors because the remote server uses fail2ban - so after a few seconds after a successful login i always get dropped by the firewall... normal connects via ssh command-line are not connecting periodically - is this some kind of hotssh-keepalive feature? Otto May 9 21:07:37 phx sshd[11184]: Accepted publickey for root from ::ffff:x.x.x.x port 61589 ssh2 May 9 21:07:39 phx sshd[11236]: Invalid user otto from ::ffff:x.x.x.x May 9 21:07:39 phx sshd[11237]: input_userauth_request: invalid user otto May 9 21:07:39 phx sshd[11237]: Connection closed by ::ffff:x.x.x.x May 9 21:07:43 phx sshd[11262]: Invalid user otto from ::ffff:x.x.x.x May 9 21:07:43 phx sshd[11263]: input_userauth_request: invalid user otto May 9 21:07:43 phx sshd[11263]: Connection closed by ::ffff:x.x.x.x May 9 21:07:48 phx sshd[11278]: Invalid user otto from ::ffff:x.x.x.x May 9 21:07:48 phx sshd[11282]: input_userauth_request: invalid user otto May 9 21:07:52 phx sshd[11294]: Invalid user otto from ::ffff:x.x.x.x May 9 21:07:52 phx sshd[11295]: input_userauth_request: invalid user otto May 9 21:07:52 phx sshd[11295]: Connection closed by ::ffff:x.x.x.x
What version of hotssh?
Ah, looks like ubuntu only has 0.2.5. This was fixed by commit: commit 1e7c32f1e2435082470a4ed6688490b6526d2d1d Author: Colin Walters <walters@src.gnome.org> Date: Fri Dec 19 03:31:02 2008 +0000 Major revamping of host monitoring; use userhost, up timeouts, give up after 3 failures Which is only in 0.2.6. Marking this as fixed, if you still have an issue with 0.2.6, please reopen.