Issue with PAM enabled dropbear !!

[Vishnu Govardhana]

Thanks for the response Matt.
I resolved it. I enabled PAM debug and that was pumping all
PAM messages to SSH and caused this failure.
Thanx,
~Sreedhar



----- Original Message ----
From: Matt Johnston <matt at ucc.asn.au>
To: Vishnu Govardhana <vishnug76 at yahoo.com>
Cc: dropbear at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 7:22:35 AM
Subject: Re: Issue with PAM enabled dropbear !!

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 07:16:13PM -0700, Vishnu Govardhana wrote:
> Hi Gurus,
>  I am a newbie to dropbear. I compiled 0.48.1 version with --enable-pam.
> Now after installing it, my connection from a remote system is failing due
> to 'Bad packet length' (the number varies everytime). I tried to debug a bit
> using tcpdump and I see that 'pam_start' etc., messages has sent to remote
> system. 

Hi,

tcpdump of port 22 shouldn't see anything about PAM - everything should
be encrypted at that point. Could you save it to a file 
(tcpdump with "-w file.cap -s 0"), don't type your password,
and send it?

Matt