Hello,
I have a problem with supported ciphers.
I'm using NET::SSH::PERL to connect from a standard RHEL4 Linux server to a VMware ESX host (not a virtual machine, this is the physical host on which virtual guests are built). The ESX host comes with sshd configured to use only the following ciphers (from /etc/ssh/sshd_config):
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#MaxStartups 10
# no default banner path
#Banner /some/path
#VerifyReverseMapping no
#ShowPatchLevel no
# override default of no subsystems
Subsystem sftp /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server
Ciphers aes256-cbc,aes128-cbc
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When I try to establish a new session from the RHEL4 client, I get the following:
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trying to connect to lonve00107
lon0176xus: Reading configuration data /var/www/.ssh/config
lon0176xus: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
lon0176xus: Allocated local port 1023.
lon0176xus: Connecting to lonve00107, port 22.
lon0176xus: Remote protocol version 1.99, remote software version OpenSSH_3.6.1p2
lon0176xus: Net::SSH::Perl Version 1.29, protocol version 2.0.
lon0176xus: No compat match: OpenSSH_3.6.1p2.
lon0176xus: Connection established.
connected to lonve00107
trying to log in as user vmbldusr
lon0176xus: Sent key-exchange init (KEXINIT), wait response.
No matching cipher found: client 3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,arcfour server aes256-cbc,aes128-cbc at /usr
+/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/Net/SSH/Perl/SSH2.pm line 89
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If I add, for example, '3des-cbc' to the list of ciphers in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the ESX server and restart sshd I connect with no problem.
Is there an easy was to add support for aes256-cbc or aes128-cbc to the NET::SSH::PERL module? Is there another way to work around this problem or will I have to change the SSHD configuration on my ESX servers to work with the ciphers currently offered with NET::SSH::PERL?
Thanks for your help
David Brezynski
david.brezynski@rbos.com
