Hi
once upon i had this problem. I had my hostnames in /etc/hosts, and i
detected that i have to connect to the hosts depending on the first name
of the ip in /etc/hosts
for example
192.168.1.1 myhost myhost.mydomain.dom
if i connected to myhost, it worked, not for myhost.mydomain.dom
cu, Jens
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Stephen Morley wrote:
> Oh, I'm frustrated. Maybe some can provide some insights to my problems with
> ssh. I am new to using ssh but have got it working well in most cases.
>
> Host: both systems are solaris. (2.5.1. and 2.6)
> SSH: F-Secure SSH Version 1.2.20 (protocol version 1.5)
> and F-secure SSH Version 1.2.27 (protocol version 1.5)
>
> I have setup numerous public key setups following the normal procedures.
> Create keys with ssh-keygen, public key goes into target system's
> authorized_keys file. Permissions the same on all files and the .ssh
> directory.
>
> However, I now have a userid to which I can't connect. ssh returns
> "Permission denied" with no prompts.
>
> Remote system: user1 user2
> Local system: user1
> public keys from user1 are placed into authoroized_keys file for user1 and
> user2 on the remote system.
>
> # can connect to self on remote system
> user1@local$ ssh remote-system
> Enter passphrase for RSA key ......
> and we connect
>
> # but can't connect to other id
> user1@local$ ssh -l user2 remote-system
> Permission denied
>
> # then for something very strange
> user1@remote$ ssh -l user2 remote-system
> user2@remote's password:
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> and user2@remote's authorized_keys contains the public keys
> for user1@local and user1@remote, so why the different effect?
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> Any ideas, please.
>
> Stephen
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