Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password [SOLVED]

2001-02-22 Thread Andrew Perrin
Not necessarily - ssh often also compresses data, which means you may very well get equal or better throughput through a secure connection. -- Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology Chapel Hill, North

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password [SOLVED]

2001-02-22 Thread Vadim A Kutsyy
But faster, right? On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Well, not exactly 'forwarding' - setting DISPLAY that way will simply make > the remote machine display to your X server; it's not forwarded, just > directly displayed. And you're correct - it's not secure. > > --

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password [SOLVED]

2001-02-22 Thread Andrew Perrin
Well, not exactly 'forwarding' - setting DISPLAY that way will simply make the remote machine display to your X server; it's not forwarded, just directly displayed. And you're correct - it's not secure. -- Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D.

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password [SOLVED]

2001-02-22 Thread Vadim Kutsyy
Joseph Dane wrote: > local> ssh -X remote > remote> DISPLAY="" xlogo > If you cleared the DISPLAY variable the client ('xlogo', in this case) > won't know how to contact the X server. Correct me if I am wrong, but setting DISPLAY=your.computer.ip:0.0 will create non secure X forwarding, which is

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password [SOLVED]

2001-02-22 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Ralf" == Ralf G R Bergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ralf> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:22:53 +0100, Andre Berger wrote: >>> '-X' option. note also that if your .bashrc (or whatever) on the >>> remote machine sets the DISPLAY variable, then this won't work. >> So I have to stop a running X s

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password [SOLVED]

2001-02-22 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:22:53 +0100, Andre Berger wrote: >> '-X' option. note also that if your .bashrc (or whatever) on the >> remote machine sets the DISPLAY variable, then this won't work. > >So I have to stop a running X server first, then do the ssh command? Nope. You can always do the foll

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password [SOLVED]

2001-02-22 Thread Andre Berger
On 2001-02-22 10:58 +0100, Joseph Dane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Andre" == Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Andre> Talking about ssh, could somebody point out the steps > Andre> necessary in order to export a remote host's display to my > Andre> local machine via, if poss

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password [SOLVED]

2001-02-21 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Andre" == Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> Talking about ssh, could somebody point out the steps Andre> necessary in order to export a remote host's display to my Andre> local machine via, if possible from scratch...? Sorry if this Andre> is a stupid question. do you mea

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password

2001-02-21 Thread Vadim Kutsyy
Colin Watson wrote: > > Vadim Kutsyy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys', then tried to log in via 'ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > >> as > >> user "andre". But ssh still prompts for "[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:". > >> What's the problem here? > > > >try > >'ssh -l andre [EMAIL PRO

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password [SOLVED]

2001-02-21 Thread Andre Berger
On 2001-02-21 16:28 +0100, Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vadim Kutsyy wrote: > > > > > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys', then tried to log in via 'ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > > as > > > user "andre". But ssh still prompts for "[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:". > > > What's the problem here? > >

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password

2001-02-21 Thread Colin Watson
Vadim Kutsyy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys', then tried to log in via 'ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]' as >> user "andre". But ssh still prompts for "[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:". >> What's the problem here? > >try >'ssh -l andre [EMAIL PROTECTED]' The -l option is ignored if you

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password

2001-02-21 Thread Colin Watson
Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I use the precompiled PC potato/security version of ssh, SSH Version >OpenSSH-1.2.3, protocol version 1.5, Compiled with SSL. I did >'ssh-keygen' without password, then 'cp ~/.ssh/identity.pub >~/.ssh/authorized_keys', then tried to log in via 'ssh [EMAIL PR

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password

2001-02-21 Thread Nate Amsden
Vadim Kutsyy wrote: > > > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys', then tried to log in via 'ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]' as > > user "andre". But ssh still prompts for "[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:". > > What's the problem here? > > try > 'ssh -l andre [EMAIL PROTECTED]' I also suggest doing ssh -l andre -v -C mir

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password

2001-02-21 Thread Andrew Perrin
Check permissions on ~/.ssh and ~/.ssh/authorized_keys - I don't know about openssh but plain ol' ssh complains if the permissions are too open on these. ap Andre Berger wrote: > > On 2001-02-21 16:09 +0100, Vadim Kutsyy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys', then tried to

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password

2001-02-21 Thread Andre Berger
On 2001-02-21 16:09 +0100, Vadim Kutsyy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys', then tried to log in via 'ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]' as > > user "andre". But ssh still prompts for "[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:". > > What's the problem here? > > try > 'ssh -l andre [EMAIL PROTECTED]'

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password

2001-02-21 Thread Vadim Kutsyy
> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys', then tried to log in via 'ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]' as > user "andre". But ssh still prompts for "[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:". > What's the problem here? try 'ssh -l andre [EMAIL PROTECTED]'

ssh doesn't stop prompting for password

2001-02-21 Thread Andre Berger
I use the precompiled PC potato/security version of ssh, SSH Version OpenSSH-1.2.3, protocol version 1.5, Compiled with SSL. I did 'ssh-keygen' without password, then 'cp ~/.ssh/identity.pub ~/.ssh/authorized_keys', then tried to log in via 'ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]' as user "andre". But ssh still pro