I have a bit of a problem with an old redhat box. ssh is installed
in the machine but sshd was not running. I can ssh out of it to anywhere
I want, So, I go to sshd_config, tell it not to let root login, save, and
start sshd. Then, I try to ssh to itself, as in

raub@testmachine>ssh raub@localhost

Here is what the log files have to say about the above:

Aug 13 12:05:11 testmachine sshd[10347]: Failed password for raub from
127.0.0.1 port 1034 ssh2
Aug 13 12:06:49 testmachine sshd[10347]: Failed password for raub from
127.0.0.1 port 1034 ssh2
Aug 13 12:06:49 testmachine sshd[10347]: Failed password for raub from
127.0.0.1 port 1034 ssh2
Aug 13 12:06:49 testmachine sshd[10347]: Failed keyboard-interactive for
raub from 127.0.0.1 port 1034 ssh2
Aug 13 12:06:49 testmachine last message repeated 2 times
Aug 13 12:06:49 testmachine sshd[10347]: Connection closed by 127.0.0.1
Aug 13 12:07:05 testmachine sshd[10349]: Failed password for raub from
127.0.0.1 port 1035 ssh2
Aug 13 12:07:09 testmachine sshd[10349]: Connection closed by 127.0.0.1
Aug 13 12:07:22 testmachine sshd[10351]: Failed password for raub from
127.0.0.1 port 1036 ssh2
Aug 13 12:07:28 testmachine sshd[10351]: Connection closed by 127.0.0.1

/var/log/security in testmachine has no entries for the above ssh
sessions. Any clues? I also tried to do ssh -vvv and even strace but they
did not