On Monday 09 Aug 2010, Rony wrote: > On Monday 09 August 2010 10:03 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: > > Yes, that's what I confirmed by transferring a large file two > > remote servers and watching my traffic. > > Before you did this experiment, has aa ever established an ssh > connection with nn or vice versa? Suppose aa and nn have never > communicated with each other, if aa is giving a key to nn, how does > nn say 'yes' to accept it, through a third party control machine? I > am not doubting your experiment but only clearing my own > understanding of ssh so no offense intended. Could you try the same > experiment on virgin machines?
I have ssh auth forwarding and key-based login on both machines, and that might explain why one talked to the other. I'm too lazy to try with passwords and no auth forwarding, let someone else do it! Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur [email protected] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
