I am connecting to 127.0.01 and the problem persists. I am not using PAM. But thanks for the /bin/true tip. On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 12:44 AM Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 10:32 PM Damien Miller <djm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Sun, 25 Jul 2021, Saint Michael wrote: > > > > > There is a Centos 7 machine where this falls after 80 loops > > > > > > target="same host" > > > while [ $i -ne 500 ];do > > > echo -e "$i" > > > ssh -p 22 root@${target} "ls / 1>/dev/null && exit;" > > > ((i++)) > > > done > > > The loop does not fail against Ubuntu boxes. > > > kindly let me know if I am doing something wrong. > > > > It's very hard to figure out what is wrong without logs (both client > > and server), but I'd start by checking your PAM configuration. > > Stop playing with redirects and funkified exit values on the far end > if you don't have to. Just use ""/bin/true". And print $i locally, > with a success or failure, to see *exactly* how many successful > connections you get. > > Some smart alecks put in various rate limiting on intervening > firewalls or proxies, to limit port scanning and host scanning. You > might check there as well. > _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev