Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> You asked for details, so I've dug a little more. > >> I had an active Kerberos ticket for a domain that was currently only >> partially accessible (VPN is up only some of the time, and sometimes >> there are only partial routes). When I run kdestroy, it removes the >> file in /tmp that ssh was reading from (to get the name of the >> unreachable system it hung on, while trying to "sendto"). Once that >> file, /tmp/krb5cc_1000, was removed, ssh no longer needed the -o >> 'GSSAPIAuthentication no' option to work properly. > >> Is that enough to go on? > > Ah, okay, so not Avahi. You have a valid Kerberos configuration and > active Kerberos tickets, so ssh wants to do GSSAPI authentication, but > your connection to your Kerberos realm is very slow or just times out. Is > that a correct summary?
Almost. The only difference is that there seems to be no time-out. In one case today, I let ssh "hang" for well over an hour. > I *hope* it's not particularly common to have Kerberos tickets for a realm > that isn't responding. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]