On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Gary <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mark wrote: >> Also, sometimes SSH fails under its own weight. I'm having a problem >> where I can't access one server because the second the login is >> accepted it starts spewing garbage and crashes Putty. Obviously >> something is going wrong with the decryption. The exact same app and >> server work fine on my other machines, so I'm stumped. >> > > That's a client side issue as you've most likely got different versions > of PuTTY on each system. sshd is pretty light on resource use -- even > better if you're using dropbear. So unless you're using antiquated > hardware or don't care about sending your credentials in plaintext, > telnet's only useful for debugging. I've found netcat (nc) to be more > useful since it can listen as well as connect. > > -Gary It's obviously client-side, but the versions are identical: kubuntu 9.04, Putty the identical most recent version available. I've tried deleting the profile and re-adding it, but that doesn't work. I think I need to figure out how to purge the key and reload it. There isn't anything obvious in the GUI to do that, but I haven't spent a lot of time investigating because accessing that particular server isn't critical to me, and I can always boot over to Windows if I really need to. Or even use the tablet, as it's connecting fine with OpenSSH. As I said, sometimes I *don't* care about sending my credentials in plaintext, because there's no possibility of anyone using them against me in any way that matters. I just don't use credentials that I use anywhere else. In fact, that can be a *good* thing, as in misdirection... I can lug my wallet around in a safe if I'm that paranoid, but personally I think I have bigger things to worry about than my wallet if I'm being mugged, and someone can still take the whole safe and crack it at their leisure. Overkill is overkill, and paranoia is seldom useful. I can understand being careful about preventing ID theft/fraud (I am myself), but being paranoid about every little thing is absurd. I mean, really, why do you care if somebody reads your emails or overhears your conversations, unless you're doing something you shouldn't? There's a big difference between being reasonably careful and being paranoid. And if you live somewhere that you're being oppressed for things that are perfectly acceptable, that's you're fault. You have options: either take an active role in changing things, or move somewhere else. Bitching, moaning and complaining to people who can't do anything about it and being paranoid all the time isn't going to solve anything and in fact only makes things worse. Mark _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
