Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 04:49:56PM +0000, Max Lock wrote: >> I've got a weird ssh problem. I'm running 2.2r0 and when I ssh as root >> to another 2.2r0 system, I get as far as debug: Allocated local port 607 >> with the -v option, and it then hangs and timesout? >> >> But the kicker is if I ssh as a non-root user, it works!? I've copied >> the known_hosts file etc and set it's perms, but with no luck. > >root is not able to login from a remote host by default. >You can change this in /etc/pam.d/login
/etc/pam.d/ssh lets root login remotely by ssh, which is fair enough. You (Max) don't have some kind of DNS problem, do you? Can the remote host do a reverse lookup on your local host's IP address? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

