As a follow up to my own post: > The only known_hosts file that exists on the machine is in > /root/.ssh/known_hosts which does not have a problem > connecting. So I figured rather than properly diagnose this, > I'd make it work again since I'm starting to run against time > constraints...too bad it didn't work: > > # cp /root/.ssh/known_hosts /home/myuser/.ssh/ > # su myuser > %ssh xxx.xxx.xx.xx > Permission denied, please try again. > Permission denied, please try again. > Received disconnect from xxx.xxx.xx.xx: 2: Too many > authentication failures for myuser > %ssh -1 xxx.xxx.xx.xx > WARNING: DSA key found for host 209.198.22.23 in > /home/myuser/.ssh/known_hosts:1 DSA key fingerprint > 8a:58:15:a5:9b:1c:1a:65:1f:0c:4d:b9:03:d2:f7:8b. > Host key verification failed. > %
Turns out that I can in fact get ssh2 to work now that the known_hosts file was copied from /root. I'm still confused as to why A) the known_hosts wasn't created automatically and B) I still can't get ssh1 to work. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message