[Bug 458476] Re: /etc/init.d/ssh gives OK status even if daemon fails to launch

[Yolanda Robla]

** Changed in: openssh (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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Title:
  /etc/init.d/ssh gives OK status even if daemon fails to launch

Status in “lsb” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “openssh” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: lsb

  lsb-base: /lib/lsb/init-functions appears to let the script
  /etc/init.d/ssh, from package openssh-server, continue with status OK
  even if the daemon fails to launch.

  I can run the script, but no sshd is launched:

  $ sudo /etc/init.d/ssh start
   * Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server sshd                                      [ OK ]
  $ pgrep -l sshd || echo Not There
  Not There

  If I launch sshd manually, it gives me a proper error message:
  sudo   /usr/sbin/sshd -Dd
  debug1: sshd version OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-6ubuntu1
  [snip]
  debug1: Bind to port 22 on 192.168.0.5.
  Bind to port 22 on 192.168.0.5 failed: Cannot assign requested address.

  I expect that in such a situation  /etc/init.d/ssh should show an error, something like this:
  $ sudo /etc/init.d/ssh start
   * Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server sshd                                      [ FAIL]
   Starting sshd failed : Bind to port 22 on 192.168.0.5 failed: Cannot assign requested address.

  $ apt-cache policy lsb-base
  lsb-base:
    Installed: 4.0-0ubuntu5
    Candidate: 4.0-0ubuntu5
    Version table:
   *** 4.0-0ubuntu5 0
          500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  $  lsb_release -rd
  Description:    Ubuntu 9.10
  Release:        9.10

  If someone misconfigures the server and then uses /etc/init.d/ssh to
  restart the server.  They will get locked out (aka denial of service)
  if they did not plan carefully enough to test which processes are
  running, that's not something your average sysadmin should be expected
  to do.  The script should work...

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Oct 22 22:21:28 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  Package: lsb-base 4.0-0ubuntu5
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   LANGUAGE=
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
  SourcePackage: lsb
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
  XsessionErrors: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2635): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

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