System Adm

If you try to access from a HP-UX another machine that has a newer version of SSH running, you may get a “SSH Memory fault(coredump)” message like the following one:

# ssh -v server
Debian OpenSSH_3.5p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0×0090609f 16153:
debug1: Reading configuration data /opt/ssh/etc/ssh_config16153:
debug1: Rhosts Authentication disabled, originating port will not be trusted.16153:
debug1: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 16153:
debug1: Connecting to serverDebian [10.0.0.1] port 22.16153:
debug1: Connection established.16153: debug1: identity file /.ssh/id_rsa type -116153:
debug1: identity file /.ssh/id_dsa type -116153:
debug1: Remote protocol version 1.99, remote software version OpenSSH_4.2-chrootssh16153:
debug1: match: OpenSSH_4.2-chrootssh pat OpenSSH* 16153:
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0 16153: debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.5p1
Memory fault(coredump)

To solve it, you should create a empty file named /etc/krb5.conf in HP-UX. After that, you will be able to use SSH