Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 37935
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2026/05/16 [General] UID:1000 Activity:popular
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2005/6/2-3 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:37935 Activity:low
6/2     In the 'official' part of the motd it says ssh1 would be shut off,
        weeks ago no less, and yet it still seems to be on.  What up with that?
        \_ Whoever did the change neglected to restart sshd.  Fixed.  -jvarga
           \_ I just tried ssh from a Solaris machine to soda and I got "ssh:
              connect to host http://soda.csua.berkeley.edu port 22: Connection
              refused".  I tried both with and without the "-2" option.  Now if
              I log out from this session I won't be able to log in again!
              \_ Using putty forcing to ssh2 doesn't connect either.
                 \_ That's the last time I trust someone's changes to "just
                    work"... fucking dammit where'd all these sshd_config
                    errors come from??? - jvarga
                    \_ What say we strip some people (person?) of their root
                       cookie?
                       \_ I say we strip karen.
                          \_ I say you're a chauvinist and an ass.
                    \_ Dang, you've been in CS how long and you only just
                       figured THAT one out? :P -jrleek
                       \_ I'm glad it was caught before soda rebooted... it
                          would suck to have to go and be physically present to
                          fix this. - jvarga
                          \_ wait, if you're not a current student, what the
                             \_ Who said he wasn't?  School's not in session,
                                dumbass.
                             hell are current students doing? It used to be
                             the case that current students run, manage, fix,
                             install everything. What the hell do they do now?
                             Playing with Windows NT servers because UNIX is
                             too hard?
                             \_ Do you object to me fixing crap?  Because if so
                                I can just leave all the broken shit for
                                "current politburo" to eventually get to or
                                notice.  Do you object to njh, dlong, mconst,
                                etc also fixing soda problems? - jvarga
                                \_ Man, lazy/apathetic kids today (current
                                   politburo). As a mentor, how about teaching
                                   them how to fish instead of giving them
                                   fish?
                                   \_ Hey yeah, and while we're at it let's
                                      un-root all the non students; they have
                                      no business working on soda.  Thanks for
                                      all the cool shee-it, jvarga, you are de
                                      man.  -John
                    \_ Maybe that's the reason whoever did the change didn't
                       restart sshd in the first place.  He didn't think his
                       own change would work either.
                       \_ Then he should have reverted sshd_config to a known-
                          working state so that an accidental (or intentional)
                          soda reboot wouldn't fuck over sshd. - jvarga
                \_ seems ok now.
        \_ will the csua website recommend an ssh2 client we can use?
           will http://csua.berkeley.edu/ssh be upgraded as well?
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