On 29/03/2008, Eike Lantzsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suspected the firewall on the workstation and casually CTRL-ALT-F2'ed into > a > console. I logged on as the same user. Lo-and-behold: It works fine on the > same machine in a text console. I went back to KDE and tried an xterm instead > of Konsole. It also hangs with xterm. That flabbergasted me completely. How > can OpenSSH be different when using it in a terminal window than on a console > while X is still running on ALT-F7? > > So it IS different. I deleted /tmp/ssh-pscjC23970 which is not created when > starting ssh in a text console. Now ssh works again from an xterm and > Konsole.
/tmp/ssh-pscjC23970 is a socket file created by ssh-agent(1). It seems that KDE starts ssh-agent, while that doesn't happen when you login. Anyway, ssh look for a running ssh-agent by reading the variable SSH_AUTH_SOCK; this is setup by KDE when it launches ssh-agent, while in the console there is no such variable (or, if there, refers to a different instance). This explains the different behavior, but why ssh hangs when connecting to ssh-agent I don't know. Ciao, Bernardo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
