OpenSSH 3.0.Xp1, AIX -> Sun trusted host problem

[Carson Gaspar]

I am _not_ an AIX expert, but I suspect one of your problems is that the 
setuid bit on the ssh binary is not being honored unless the user invoking 
it is in the system group. Why this could be, I have no idea. Try the 
following:

1) log in as patrol; echo $$ to get your shell's pid
2) log in as root in another session
3) as root "truss -f -o $filename -p $pid" where $pid is patrol's shell's 
pid
4) as patrol try the ssh command
5) ^C the truss
6) repeat with the other system group membership
7) see what the !@#$%'s different

For the other machine that doesn't work at all, I suspect an incorrect 
known_host key entry on the server. but I'd have to add debugging commands 
into the sshd source to find out. Bad system logging, no doughnut.

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