OpenSSH 3.4p1 on SourceMage client ssh fails

[Damien Mascord]

Gert,

ahh!

non world writeable /dev/tty* was the issue...

Thanks for the apt answer... any reason why this wasn't picked up on the 
debug or verbose??

Damien

At 12:02 PM 28/07/2002 +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 07:38:28PM +0800, Damien Mascord wrote:
> > I have a OpenSSH 3.4p1 installation on a SourceMage box, and I am 
> trying to
> > connect to a OpenSSH 3.3p1 installation on a RedHat 7.x box and any other
> > machine.
> >
> > The client fails with a "Host key verification failed."
>
> >From the debug, it seems as if the client is not asking you to accept an
>(yet-unknown) server key, but just checking all possible locations, not
>finding the key, and giving up.
>
>I have seen a similar effect on a system that had a /dev/tty entry that
>was not world-writeable (thus the ssh client couldn't open it to ask for
>a confirmation).
>
>The effect will also happen if you have "StrictHostKeyChecking yes" in
>ssh_config - set that to "ask", otherwise it will fail if the key isn't
>known in advance.
>
>gert
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