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

[Sandor W. Sklar]

At 3:59 AM -0500 1/11/02, Carson Gaspar wrote:
>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:

Hi there ... thanks for you suggestions; I haven't had time to try it 
out, but I will attempt to do so soon, and let you know what I find 
out.

--Sandy

>
>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.
>
>--
>Carson Gaspar - carson at taltos.org
>Queen Trapped in a Butch Body
>
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