try ssh -x server1 and ssh -v server1
Michael Hulet
Network System Administrator
ITTC, University of Kansas
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Salameh, Malcolm (ETC - MLAJA) wrote:
> All,
>
> Has anyone seen these symptons - I'm running SSH 2.0.13 running on Solaris
> 2.6. I am able to connect to SSH on all of these hosts using my Windows SSH
> GUI client (the beta one). However, when I try to use ssh from the UNIX
> server I get:
>
> >ssh server1
> Accepting host server1 key without checking
> malcolm's password:
>
> I enter my password for server1 and it just sits there forever! I can't even
> break it. However, I can ssh to server1 using my Windows GUI. Weird stuff!
> Does this have anything to do with home drives I wonder. You see, from the
> UNIX server i'm ssh'ing from, my home drive is automounted (via automountd).
> However, server1 is not NIS enabled and doesn't automount home drives (I
> have an account in the local password file).
>
> When I try to ssh from two machines that are both NIS and automount enabled
> (so my home drive will the exactly the same on both servers), SSH works
> fine. However, when I try the SSH to machines which are not automounting my
> home drive (that is, I have a local password and /home directory) ssh just
> hangs. But then why does it work for the Windows GUI client?
>
> I love strange problems!
>
> Thanks for your help in advance people,
> Mal
>
