Re: Recent openssh and openssl import / update breaks sshd password authentication

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

On Mon, 13 Apr 2026 at 09:53:52 +0200, Markus Kilbinger wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Since recent
>
>   
> https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2026/04/08/msg161497.html
>   
> https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2026/04/08/msg161500.html
>
> resulting sshd no longer accepts password authentication:
>
>   sshd-session[11328]: fatal: sshpam_init: called initially with no
> packet context [preauth]
>
> This happens on all my aarch64 machines.
> Kerberos and key based logins still work fine.
>
> Does anybody else is seeing this problem?

Yes, it happened to me too (on aarch64, and then I reproduced and
tested further on amd64). I opened a PR about it, but nothing useful
to share at this point.
https://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=60196

Regards,

Dave