Hi Don,

Here's some thoughts on this. Do you have public key authentication defined on the 
server side?

Run your clinet and server in debug mode (I think it's -D with OpenSSH) and see what 
that tells you when you try to connect. 

-Anne


On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:19:02AM -0800, Don Faulkner wrote:
> First time I've tried this, so I'm probably really confused.
> 
> I've had ssh-agent working on my laptop for some time. Now, I want to ssh
> to system1, and from my shell on system1, ssh to system2.
> 
> So I do
> laptop$ eval `ssh-agent`
> laptop$ ssh-add $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa
> laptop$ ssh system1
> 
> system1$ ssh system2
> enter password for user@system2:
> 
> What am I doing wrong here? Do I need to start an ssh-agent as part of my
> logon process in system1? or is there something else going on?
> 
> -- 
> Don Faulkner, KB5WPM             |
>                                  | "All that is gold does not glitter."
>  ( This space unintentionally    | "not all those who wander are lost."
>                  left blank )    |                    --J.R.R. Tolkien
> 
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