On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Ed Greshko <[email protected]> wrote: > Mirko Vukovic wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Ed Greshko <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Mirko Vukovic wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I am having intermittent trouble logging into a remote linux machine >>>> depending on the machine from which I am trying to log from. I am >>>> logging in from windows XP machines with cygwin and cygwin's ssh. >>>> >>>> - If I try to log in from my windows desktop to the rhel5 that sits >>>> next to it, things work >>>> - If I try to log in from my windows laptop from home, to the rhel5, I >>>> get `Permission denied, please try again' >>>> - If I first log into my windows desktop from my laptop, I can then >>>> log into the rhel5 from my desktop. >>>> >>>> It seems to me that the rhel5 is refusing the connection from my >>>> laptop because of the type of network connection or latency (pinging >>>> from laptop to rhel5 is 200-300 msec and from windows desktop to rhel5 >>>> is < 5 msec), or some other such issue. But does that make sense? >>>> >>>> The frustrating thing is that a few months ago (when I last attempted >>>> this) I was able to log in remotely from my laptop, even from across >>>> the pacific. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Watching a game on TV....so just a quick thought/suggestion. How about >>> running sshd with -d (debugging) to see if anything in the logs will >>> help narrow down the problem? >>> >>> -- >>> All tribal myths are true, for a given value of 'true'. (The Last >>> Continent) >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> rhelv5-list mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list >>> >>> >> with `ssh -vv' nothing obvious came up. But, are there system log >> files where the refusal would be logged? >> >> > My suggestion was to run the server "sshd" in debug mode. > > -- > Your step will soil many countries. > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list >
Ah. I will give it a shot once I get back next to the machine (in 10 days). Thanks for explaining that. _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
