Hi again, >ssh isn't doing what I want ...
I experimented with this a bit more this evening. I stopped sshd on the remote machine and then restarted it with /usr/sbin/sshd -ddd. On the local system I tried the simplest invocation of "ssh remote-host-name" - and it logged in using the public key, no password prompt whatsoever. Odd. So, I restarted sshd with "/etc/init.d/sshd restart". Now the above command wants a password. Really odd. The only difference I can find between the two means of starting sshd is that the init.d script will source /etc/sysconfig/sshd if it exists - but it doesn't. Soooo ... what gives? Some oddball environment variable setting? At this hour I need to stop, but I will continue my quest in another day or so. My thanks to Jeremy Reed, Michael Evans, Mat Watson, and Ted Stern for their responses to date. -- Mike Schuh, Seattle USA http://www.farmdale.com
