On Sep 30, Peyman Gohari wrote > In our group we have a single Debian machine surrounded by a bunch of > Redhats:( We have secure shell installed on all, but it behaves weird on > Redhats from time to time. The problem is that when you try to get a > remote shell using ssh, you may be denied access to the remote host and > get the message "you don't exist, go away!". I suppose it's a bug, as it > doesn't happen all the time and moreover, if you keep on trying after a > couple of failures, you finally get through! > > Any clue?
It could very well be PAM related. This came by on the PAM development list; as there is currently no archive of that list available, I'll include it. |Date: 22 Sep 1997 22:19:08 GMT |From: Henrik Seidel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |To: ssh@clinet.fi |Subject: Re: ssh & redhat4.2: You don't exist, go away! |In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( Henrik Seidel ) writes: | |> I have the following problem with ssh 1.2.21 on a Redhat 4.2 Linux |> system: I can call ssh once to connect to another of our local hosts |> (with home crossmounted). However, after exiting that ssh any new attempt |> fails with "You don't exist, go away!". After some time (timeout??) I can |> connect again. This time is in the range of minutes. | |Just some more information: The problem occurs only for users from NIS, not |for those with entries in /etc/passwd. Using something like this | | for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do ssh remotehost; done | |usually gives some successful ssh interspersed between many "Go away"s. | |This is not a general NIS or Linux problem but rather Redhat-specific, |since on another system I manage (Slackware 3.0) it does not occur. HTH, Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would have the decency to betray his country. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
