[solved] sshd:PAM: authentication thread exited unexpectedly

[aceFruchtsaft]

For days I've been trying to fix my OpenSSH server which is running on my local file server, so I'm really desperate right now.
I use sshd -> PAM -> LDAP for authentication, but other services which authenticate directly against OpenLDAP (like Samba) oder indirectly via PAM (like apache, postfix, cyrus-imapd, etc...) all work.

With /usr/sbin/sshd -dd i get this debugging output:

[aceFruchtsaft]

Ok, while writing this I realized that even if I changed the auth token in /etc/pam.d/sshd, account, session and password would still depend on LDAP.

So now I've changed /etc/pam.d/sshd to

[wynn]

Just a thought: have you upgraded from openssl 0.9.7 to 0.9.8 recently? Have you still got the old libssl and libcrypto? If so, would it be worthwhile emerge'ng PAM again to get it to use the 0.9.8 ibraries?

revdep-rebuild --library=lib\(ssl\|crypto\).so.0.9.7 might be useful too, it pulls in openldap.
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[aceFruchtsaft]

Wow, you were actually right. After checking with genlop I noticed that I didn't re-emerge Openldap since I updated to openssl-0.9.8x (however, I though I did...).
I guess as everything else still successfully authenticated against LDAP I thought the problem must be somewhere else.... now I just wonder why all other services kept working, I'd assume that they all use the same libraries to connect to LDAP with TLS.

Thanks!