Re: [ProgSoc] ssh on nfs'd /home

[vik <vik@nospam.progsoc.org>]

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|  ] I've got a file server which serves out /home to a couple of
|  ] workstations. now, from these workstations, I want to be able to ssh to
|  ] the file server from time to time, without a password. So I would use
|  ] ssh-keygen and ssh-copy-id to generate and transfer the key across. But
|  ] this doesn't seem to work, my guess being coz  ~/.ssh is one and the
|  ] same on both machines. Is there any way to get around this apart from
|  ] using /etc/hosts.equiv ?
|
|  hosts.equiv should be avoided, for any number of reasons.

That's what I figured. but thought that on the odd occasion where a
number of hosts are `equivalent', it may be a good solution.

|  Is this ssh1 or 2 ?  (You didn't say.)

The server is running debian/potato (OpenSSH version 1.2.3-9.4), while
the clients are running woody (OpenSSH version 3.0.2p1-9).

|  What do you want to access the server for?  (Can it be done by
|  sharing out yet another directory on the server, with either
|  nfs or samba (you didn't say).)

mostly admin kinda stuff, sometimes to start big downloads or long
tasks. I need an actual shell.

|  Have you tried replicating the user's public key in the user's
|  authorized_hosts file, and see what happens?

That works for ssh'ing to the server (Which is pretty much what I want).
~ Why the hell didn't I think of that? But I can't ssh from the server
back to any of the workstations. It tells me:

$ ssh foo
Disconnecting: Bad packet length 1349676916.
$

Would this be b/c of different protocol versions?

chow

vik
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