Re: ssh woes!?...
Philipp Schulte <p.schulte@matrix.uni-duisburg.de> wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 04:49:56PM +0000, Max Lock wrote:
>> I've got a weird ssh problem. I'm running 2.2r0 and when I ssh as root
>> to another 2.2r0 system, I get as far as debug: Allocated local port 607
>> with the -v option, and it then hangs and timesout?
>>
>> But the kicker is if I ssh as a non-root user, it works!? I've copied
>> the known_hosts file etc and set it's perms, but with no luck.
>
>root is not able to login from a remote host by default.
>You can change this in /etc/pam.d/login
/etc/pam.d/ssh lets root login remotely by ssh, which is fair enough.
You (Max) don't have some kind of DNS problem, do you? Can the remote
host do a reverse lookup on your local host's IP address?
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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