Re: SSH and apt-get problem

[Faheem Mitha <faheem@email.unc.edu>]

On 3 Mar 2002, Matthew H. Ray wrote:

> I have a small cluster of Woody machines (fresh install) and I've run
> into problems running apt-get with SSH.  While trying to install
> packages on all the machines with dsh, I started getting apt-get
> problems, so I tried it with just ssh on the individual machines.  It
> appears that SSH is losing it's knowledge of the PATH while executing.
> I used ssh-keygen so I wouldn't have to do logins (thus no password
> request).
[snip]

I use RSA authentication with a blank passphrase, so I don't have to
give a password, just do "ssh hostname". This works fine for me. Why
don't you use that instead?

I'm sorry, but I have I have no idea what ssh-keygen is, or what might
be causing your particular problem.

                                               Faheem.