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Re: curl/libssh2 ssh-rsa issue

From: João M. S. Silva via curl-users <curl-users_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2023 17:40:04 +0100

With the new libssh2.c file and #define CURL_LIBSSH2_DEBUG I now get:

[libssh2] 0.196745 Key Ex: Server's SHA1 Fingerprint:
10:04:1a:f5:f3:5b:bd:2f:f1:fc:30:9f:2f:ab:74:12:4d:03:de:72
[libssh2] 0.196788 Key Ex: Server's SHA256 Fingerprint:
SZOJVBXkEDqeNo0+xKDHRjdWLfdxXyOTmizRGj34x3M=
[libssh2] 0.196804 Failure Event: unexpected rsa type: ssh-rsa
[libssh2] 0.196806 Failure Event: -10 - Unable to initialize hostkey
importer ECDH
[libssh2] 0.196814 Failure Event: -8 - Unrecoverable error exchanging keys
[libssh2] 0.196816 Failure Event: -8 - Unable to exchange encryption keys
* Failure establishing ssh session: -8, Unable to exchange encryption keys
* SFTP 0x557495c6fa28 state change from SSH_S_STARTUP to SSH_SESSION_FREE
[libssh2] 0.196863 Transport: Freeing session resource
[libssh2] 0.196865 Transport: Extra packets left 0
* SFTP 0x557495c6fa28 state change from SSH_SESSION_FREE to SSH_STOP
* multi_done: status: 2 prem: 1 done: 0
^M 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--
    0
^M 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--
    0
* multi_done, not re-using connection=0, forbid=0, close=1, premature=1,
conn_multiplex=0
* The cache now contains 0 members
* Curl_disconnect(conn #0, dead=1)
* SSH DISCONNECT starts now
* SSH DISCONNECT is done
* Closing connection 0
* Expire cleared (transfer 0x557495cb7648)
curl: (2) Failure establishing ssh session: -8, Unable to exchange
encryption keys

On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 5:10 PM Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Jun 2023, João M. S. Silva via curl-users wrote:
>
> > $ curl -vvvvvv -T A sftp://127.0.0.1//home/shared/B -u x:y
>
> curl's -v option is binary. Using more than one doesn't do anything more.
>
> > * Expire cleared (transfer 0x55e16c7a5638)
> > curl: (79) Error in the SSH layer
>
> ...
>
> > Is there a way, without writing custom code, to make curl/libssh2 output
> the
> > specific reason for failure?
>
> I consider it a bug that it doesn't say more. It really should, as that is
> almost tauntingly brief and non-helpful.
>
> It seems to be related to the setting of the host key type though since
> that's
> what it shows immediately before the error.
>
> Do you think there is a risk that your test run maybe accidentally used an
> older libssh2 install?
>
> Also, if you can, try this patch on top of your curl to maybe get a
> (better)
> error message: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/11240
>
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>
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Received on 2023-06-02